Half Past the Month
Words That Have Failed Us WE KEEP A LIST of dead words, that is, words that have lost meaning through overuse, misapplication and a general inability to illume. I won’t bother you with the full list but here is one example: We do not allow the use of “very.” Anyway, you get the idea. Regular readers will remember Read the full article…
Morris
We Can Trust Ourselves by Leo Morris In the current political context, I am more traditional than progressive, although with a few liberal skeletons in my conservative closet. But in my philosophical soul, I am a libertarian, with a fervent belief in individual rights and a tolerance for only the minimum government necessary to protect Read the full article…
Franke
Passion Week and Unholy Passions by Mark Franke We are in Holy or Passion Week, the most significant eight days on the Christian calendar. It is a week of remembrance of the original Passion Week which occurred nearly 2,000 years ago. The week proceeds along a very emotional roller-coaster ride for Christians. It begins with Read the full article…
McGowan
Campus Cancel Culture:Technological Solipsism? “Ann Coulter Storms Out After Lying to IU Students for 75 Minutes.” — headline in the April 2 Indiana University Daily Student by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Anyone attentive to the news is aware of students shouting down speakers on college campuses. The incidents at Yale and the University of California’s Hastings College Read the full article…
The Outstater
Coulter in Bloomington I DON’T RELISH the castigation of a student editorial, having written some terrible ones as an undergraduate. Even so, the Friday offering from the editorial staff of the Indiana Daily Student deserves attention on a couple of levels. First, it is the only in-person report of a campus speech by the columnist Ann Coulter. It was Read the full article…
Morris
A New Fun Fact for Indiana by Leo Morris Here is a fun fact for your amusement, which I just invented: The Grand Canyon is seven miles longer than Indiana. OK, I didn’t “invent” it. I discovered it. You do that by taking two discrete pieces of information and putting them together in a way Read the full article…
