By the time you read this column (if we are lucky), the Indiana Legislature will have finished its work and gone home. Watching the legislative process always makes me wonder whether democracy can really last…
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Author Archives: Sheila
Magic of Prayer
Well, I see where someone has stolen a plaque of the Ten Commandments from the Morgan County Courthouse. Reporters have expressed surprise, because one of the Commandments, as we all…
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DiverCity
In all of the years I have been attending the Taylor Symposia, I cannot remember confronting a more important topic than the one implicit in the Symposium title, DiverCity…
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Health Policy in America
As a population, we tend to be woefully uninformed about public health matters, even as we become more and more obsessed with our individual health and fitness. That lack of information contributes to our failure to achieve consensus on change: we all know the current system isn’t working very well, but we know very little about where and why.
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How Free Speech Works
One of my favorite free speech stories concerns a young man who called me back in my ICLU days, to complain that a local fast-food chain wouldn’t hire him because he was tattooed all over. They found it unappetizing, and worried that customers might also. "Don’t I have a First Amendment right to express myself?" he complained. "Sure." I told him…
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