Keating: Do Great Masters Cheat When Using ChatGPT?
(This is a draft copy, not for publication or distribution.) By Barry Keating, Ph.D., an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. Johannes Vermeer, the artist, produced about 35 works that are attributed to him with relative certainty. His most famous painting is arguably Girl Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Word for You Old Fellows BEING A MAN OF WORDS, I must take them seriously. Recently I discovered a new one that has wide application to my life, explaining vexations that previously were invexible. The word is “non-cognizable.” Yes, I have stretched its meaning somewhat to fit my purposes but that is a feature of the Read the full article…
Franke: The Generational Divide
by Mark Franke It is simply a fact of life that each generation rebels against its predecessors. I will leave it to the psychologists or sociologists to explain why that is and why historically these generations tend to get the rebellion worked out of their system in early adulthood. Maybe it’s the children and the mortgage Read the full article…
The Outstater
No Saving Small-Town Journos IT’S NOT NEWS to anyone that there’s no news. But I fear too few realize the importance of a media check on local government, a stalwart independent authority that holds councilmen to their word and verifies their facts, tries to match intentions with results. That once was the job of hometown newspapers — particularly Read the full article…
Gaski: The GOP and the Abortion Trap
by John Gaski, Ph.D. Clearly, the Republicans need emergency repositioning guidance on the third-rail issue of abortion to neutralize or at least minimize its electoral damage. This is not a “re-branding” matter; nearly all media talking heads and editorial writers misuse that term when they mean repositioning. Bad strategic positioning does cause brand perception problems, but Read the full article…
The Outstater
The Government Shell Game “If you think the problems the government creates are bad, wait until you see its solutions.” — Libertarian coffee mug THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE has discovered that the Holcomb administration’s economic strategy, bribing investment, is pointless at best if not self-defeating or even fraudulent. There is a stack of independent economic analyses that says Read the full article…
