Van Cott: Beware the Cost-of-Living Index
by Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. Suppose you live and work in Indianapolis. Your employer informs you that it wants to transfer you to San Francisco. One of your first concerns is likely to be: “Hey, what about my salary? The cost of living is really high out there, isn’t it?” Anticipating such a reaction, your Read the full article…
Morris: The Kavanaugh Treatment
by Leo Morris I write these columns a week ahead of time. There is a selfish reason for that practice – always having a column in the bank means I don’t have deadline panic every time I sit down at the keyboard. But there is also a beneficial effect, I think. The delay forces me Read the full article…
The Outstater
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm-in-arm with Balzac and Dumas; I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come graciously with no scorn nor condescension.” — W.E. B. DuBois IF YOU SEE NO DIFFERENCE between equality of results and equality of opportunity, Read the full article…
Morris: We’re Getting Only Part of the Story
by Leo Morris In their campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in seven debates, each lasting an astonishing (by today’s standards) three hours. The first speaker (which alternated), expounded for an hour. The second candidate responded for 90 minutes. Then, the first speaker was allowed a 30-minute “rejoinder.” Read the full article…
Mark Your Calendar
‘An Evening with Tom Huston’ You hadn’t known Donald Trump had a good chance to win the presidency? That may be because you hadn’t read Tom Huston’s Feb. 13, 2016, essay, “Trumpism and the Invisible Man.” That and almost a hundred other articles from the pen of Mr. Huston, Indianapolis developer and formerly associate counsel to Read the full article…
Huston: Analysis of the Kavanaugh Charges
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NAILS IT — You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to have figured out that the last-minute ambush of Judge Brett Kavanaugh was organized by the Washington Post and Sen. Diane Feinstein in coordination with the “victim” and her publicist lawyer. Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii insists that men should just shut up about the credibility Read the full article…
