The Outstater
An Eternal Education Conundrum I BELONG TO A STUDY GROUP that takes up a public policy issue each month. Over the months, one thing has become painfully clear: Viable and sometimes obvious solutions are more plentiful than the will to apply them. Indeed, in many cases it would be just a matter of noticing what’s going on. Read the full article…
The Outstater
Inside Journalism: What to Know IT WAS A COMMENDABLE practice in the Old Journalism that you did not write on the internal workings of the news room — no “inside baseball,” they said. Readers didn’t have time for it; all they wanted was reasonably accurate reports of the city’s goings-on, prescient whenever possible. That is all out Read the full article…
The Outstater
Equity? Here’s a Position for You ALMOST 50 YEARS of an incoherent national dialogue on race has left me with some perverse views. If we are going to have separate black and and white national anthems, for instance, my position is that one of them ought to be Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Read the full article…
O’Donnell: Jesus — Socialist? Capitalist? It’s Complicated
by Jim O’Donnell Some of our Lord’s harshest statements were about wealth and the rich: Marx adapted that last one: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” With such strong statements by Jesus against wealth, it might seem like a contradiction that He could be a free-market capitalist. But capitalism Read the full article…
Franke: 1776 — A Failed Experiment?
by Mark Franke Presentism is one of the pervasive evils in our brave new world. It is the new orthodoxy to examine history under a filtering lens that subjects all events and people to our modern conceits. And it is not surprising that everything in the past falls short at some point. Perfection, you see, Read the full article…
Seminars
Growing Indiana Small Towns THE NEXT U.S. Census is expected to show a historic migration of middle-class families away from the large urban areas and into adjacent small towns. The foundation has asked Dr. Eric Schansberg, an adjunct scholar and nationally known economist, to address the inherent opportunities of Indiana small towns, especially those with a unique Read the full article…
