Indiana Social Capital Scores by County
County Overall County SCI Family Unity Community Health Institutional Health Collective Efficacy Adams County, Indiana 79 94 63 63 -1 Allen County, Indiana 46 43 31 69 32 Bartholomew County, IN 65 67 44 65 62 Benton County, Indiana 73 51 81 69 -1 Blackford County, IN 64 41 57 57 91 Boone County, Indiana Read the full article…
Franke: Air Conditioning — The Cause of All Our Woes
by Mark Frank I have finally figured out the root cause of all our woes — air conditioning. I am deadly serious about this. Consider just two travesties wreaking havoc across our landscape: First, school start dates. My teacher neighbor started the first full week of August and her school was not alone. The school Read the full article…
Moss: A Word Against the New Sodom and Gomorrah
by Richard Moss, M.D. The entire month, each June, is a low point for the country. The unrestrained debauchery, the flaunting of pathologic deviancy and the celebration of perversion — does it get any worse than “Pride Month?” Our ruling elites in all sectors are positively swept away by it, consumed as they are with promoting it, and Read the full article…
Schansberg: AI and the Demise of Higher Ed?
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. I teach an on-line Principles of Microeconomics course every summer. It is “asynchronous”: students work at their own pace (within my deadlines), using the text, a course-management system, short videos from me, and outside resources they find. In such courses, I interact with the students through “forums” to discuss articles; I Read the full article…
McGowan: Where Are the Platonists?
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. When I taught ethics, I had several challenges. For one thing, unlike students in France, American students took no philosophy courses in high school. Students leave high school with reasoning skills that do not align well with the critical analysis philosophy courses demand. Students, even bright students, rely too much on Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Tale of Two Artworks HOW’S THE CULTURE WAR GOING? Well, I have the perfect seat for it — on a favorite bench in the middle of Freimann Square in downtown Fort Wayne. There, on the southwest corner of the square, is Gen. Anthony Wayne, hero of Fallen Timbers, his horse with one front leg raised signifying Read the full article…
