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Deport Them; They’ll Like It THE ADMINISTRATION of Indiana University is deep into what my colleague Mark Franke has identified as cognitive-dissonance reduction, a way of cramming inconvenient facts into an impossible ideology. Pamela Whitten, with a doctorate in communication studies, is the university’s first female president if that is important to you. She seems confused or perhaps just stymied as Read the full article…
Franke: What’s U.S. Foreign Policy?
by Mark Franke I learned something new the other day in a Wall Street Journal column: the term “cognitive-dissonance reduction,” a form of mental gymnastics used to fit inconvenient facts to the ideology. I know what cognitive dissonance is, having run into the term in my undergraduate business school classes. Think of it as a Read the full article…
The Success of an ‘Annoying Child’
I LOVE TO TELL HER STORY. She is an inspiration that you can bloom where you are planted, you don’t need a high affirmative-action score or special favors to succeed. Heck, you don’t even need a college degree. Bobbi Ann Mlynar and I had the same English teacher our senior year, an eccentric word fiend who Read the full article…
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Monsters to Destroy . . . TIME SPENT FIGHTING a foreign war, a decade writing editorials on foreign policy and several years as a foreign policy aide to a U.S. Senator have left me with a single insight. It applies to the inflection that we see developing in the Middle East and it is just this: Read the full article…
McGowan: Terrorism, War and Diversity
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. My family has felt the horrors of terrorism. Years ago, when the First Officer of Egypt Air Flight 990 piloted the aircraft into the north Atlantic while repeatedly muttering “I rely on God,” 217 people perished. Among those who were killed in this perfidious act were two of my relatives, an uncle Read the full article…
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Gaza Perversity at IU IU STUDENTS WHO PROTESTED following the terrorist attack on Israeli homes (do we need to show you the pictures that the terrorists themselves took?) now say they were merely concerned for the lives of innocent children living from whence the terrorists came. Really? So, one morning it is announced that a Read the full article…
