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Corporate Media on the Dock HERE’S AN IDEA: Ask the Indiana Secretary of State to deny incorporation for newspapers owned by out-of-state entities. Preposterous? Somewhat. The legal hurdles would be daunting. It might be interesting, though, to hear corporate publishers testify under oath how they are functioning mediums for the First Amendment. If allowed as a friend Read the full article…
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The Star Explores Outstate Indiana THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR has sent a team of intrepid newswomen to the far corners of the state to learn what we are about out here, heavy on those man-on-the-street interviews of hapless “average” Hoosiers. One dispatch from the hinterland began, “The hills of southern Indiana look different than the manufacturing industry-dotted lakeshore Read the full article…
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A Social Contract: Health and Human Capital ‘SALUS POPULI suprema lex esto” (Let the health of the people be the supreme law) was Cicero’s test of good government. It is the core social contract of our society, both the justification and the limit of state power. But an adjunct of this foundation, Dr. Berry Keating, will argue in Read the full article…
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Our Cultural Disconnect WITH THE 250th ANNIVERSARY of the Declaration of Independence ahead of us, we asked our assistant, Grok, to review recent polling on what American youth know about this founding document. I leave the results with you to decide whether we have reached a state of total cultural disconnection: The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Civics Read the full article…
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Redistricting Disassembled O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.” (Othello 3.3.165-167) THERE IS A WAY to make sense of the Republican rift over redistricting. You start by eliminating all the stated explanations: Which leaves us with what is at the heart of every political story — Read the full article…
McGowan: Other Pitchers Who Could Hit
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Now that the final 2025 MLB baseball game has been played, fans can start dissecting the past season. Of course, that also means examining the media coverage of the season, especially during the playoffs. Some observations easily avail themselves. If Ohtani’s greatness is owed in part to his being a two-way Read the full article…
