In 2020, Kanye West tried to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin. He needed 2,000 signatures. He submitted 2,422…. Read more
Category: Ethics
The Quiet Return of Taxation Without Representation
Bruce Richardson has spent a lifetime around tea. He runs Elmwood Inn Fine Teas in Danville, Kentucky, imports leaves from… Read more
America’s Most Underrated Engine of Opportunity
Evening light spills across the parking lot of a community college as classrooms begin to fill for the night. Students… Read more
How a Consumer Protection Law Became a Corporate Accounting Game
A woman stands at a pharmacy counter on a gray Tuesday afternoon, sliding her insurance card across the laminate. She… Read more
Adaptive Hiring: A Human-Centered Way to Build Future-Ready Teams
Tuesday mornings in shared workspaces look the same across the country. Coffee cups gather beside laptops. Notifications blink with quiet… Read more
The Moral Difference Between Effort and Outcome
American life has developed a convenient habit: we treat outcomes as moral verdicts. If you succeed, you must have earned… Read more
What We Learned by Watching What Didn’t Break
Every December, we make the same mistake. We treat the year as something to summarize rather than something to absorb…. Read more
What Tech Cannot Replace During the Holidays
The year did not collapse. That is not nothing. A school quietly opened a food pantry so families could pick… Read more
Who Is Rand Paul and Why You Want to Know
Politics tends to flatten people. Over time, complex lives get reduced to a handful of talking points, a voting record,… Read more
The Unlikely Dignity of Mike Pence
Hoosier politics has long operated on a kind of practical decency: the conviction that even when national passions run hot,… Read more