Indianapolis seems poised for a political battle over a highly unlikely subject: the public library.
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Category Archives: Free Speech
Son of CDA
I recently caught Senator Dan Coats on one of the morning news shows, and I immediately thought of Ronald Reagan’s famous debate line, "There you go again!"…
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Censorship and the Arts
I have this recurring fantasy: a caveman discovers that he can produce drawings of the animals he hunts on the walls of his cave. Excited by the possibilities of his art, energized by the creative act, he produces a drawing–only to have it rubbed angrily off the cave wall by someone in his tribe who declares that the depiction of animal…
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Trouble in River City
Recently, as I was watching "The Music Man" with an impossibly young Robert Preston on cable, I was struck with the truth of an old adage: the more things change, the more they stay the same…
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Honoring the Flag
I admit it – I am one of those mushy types who still gets goose bumps when I stand with a crowd to sing the national anthem; I get positively teary saying the Pledge of Allegiance. When I look at the stars and stripes, I don’t see cloth — I see everything that gives the flag its meaning: the principles enshrined in the Declaration of
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