I never swooned over Frank Sinatra. When Beatlemania hit the United States, I wasn’t one of the Fab Four’s screaming fans. In fact, I have written only one fan letter in my entire life, and that was five years ago, to Barry Goldwater.
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Valuing Ideas
Indianapolis seems poised for a political battle over a highly unlikely subject: the public library.
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Christians, Lions & the Bill of Rights
In a free country, citizens will always debate matters of public policy and the proper interpretation of the laws. This is as it should be; the clash of ideas and beliefs, the "marketplace of ideas" is precisely what the founders of this nation wanted to…
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Saddened But Not Surprised
Within a recent, two-day period, Indianapolis media reported on two separate, ugly incidents. In Greenwood, racist flyers were distributed on cars parked at the Greenwood Park Mall; in Carmel, anti-Semitic tracts were thrown on driveways in selected neighborhoods.
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Inconsistencies
Most of us profess to admire people of principle, but that admiration is often distressingly abstract. In real life, people who stand on principle are likely to find that they have stepped into the line of everyone’s fire.
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