The Outstater
Purdue’s Ethics Expert WE AREN’T EXPERTS here on the ethics of politics, although we grant that there may be such a thing. Politics and ethics seem too juxtaposed in the journalistic firmament for us to manage the intellectual span. Andy Downs, however, is such an expert. He is the director of the Center for Indiana Politics Read the full article…
Franke
Baseball Is Back (for Better or Worse) by Mark Franke Baseball is back, finally. It seems the winters here in northeast Indiana get longer and longer, or maybe it’s just that I am getting older and older. I watched several major league baseball (MLB) games on opening weekend and last week attended my first game Read the full article…
Morris
Beware ‘The Next Big Thing’ by Leo Morris I’m so old that I remember when the Establishment set the rules and rebels tried to break them. Now, we seem to be embarked on a great experiment in which the former rebels are in charge and determined to get rid of all the rules. Sometimes, I Read the full article…
The Outstater
The ‘Envy Thesis’ “Proverbs in many languages agree that the greatest damage done by the envious man is to himself.” — Helmut Schoeck, “Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior” A NOTED LAW PROFESSOR said something outrageous last week, outrageous even in this age of daily outrages. She said that the politics of American blacks was motivated by unbridled envy. Amy Wax, 69, of Read the full article…
Op-Ed: ‘With Malice Toward None . . .
By Adina Moss Was Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address the greatest in our nation’s history? Robert Schlesinger ranks it among the top five. In his list, he also included Thomas Jefferson’s first (1801), Franklin Roosevelt’s first and second (1933, 1937) and John Kennedy’s (1961). James Lindsay places Lincoln’s first (1861) and second (1865) in his list Read the full article…
McGowan
The Perspectiveless Perspective by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. “Just as in the law courts no person can pass judgment who does not listen to the arguments . . . so must a person whose task it is to study philosophy place himself in a better position to reach a judgment by listening to all the arguments.” Read the full article…
