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Category: Ethics


The Machinery of Democracy: Literature as a Software Service and a Public Good

Posted on January 23, 2026 Updated on January 23, 2026

In 2020, Kanye West tried to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin. He needed 2,000 signatures. He submitted 2,422…. Read more

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The Quiet Return of Taxation Without Representation

Posted on January 21, 2026 Updated on January 21, 2026

Bruce Richardson has spent a lifetime around tea. He runs Elmwood Inn Fine Teas in Danville, Kentucky, imports leaves from… Read more

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America’s Most Underrated Engine of Opportunity

Posted on January 17, 2026 Updated on January 17, 2026

Evening light spills across the parking lot of a community college as classrooms begin to fill for the night. Students… Read more

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How a Consumer Protection Law Became a Corporate Accounting Game

Posted on January 11, 2026 Updated on January 11, 2026

A woman stands at a pharmacy counter on a gray Tuesday afternoon, sliding her insurance card across the laminate. She… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Healthcare     


Adaptive Hiring: A Human-Centered Way to Build Future-Ready Teams

Posted on January 8, 2026 Updated on January 8, 2026

Tuesday mornings in shared workspaces look the same across the country. Coffee cups gather beside laptops. Notifications blink with quiet… Read more

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The Moral Difference Between Effort and Outcome

Posted on December 28, 2025 Updated on December 28, 2025

American life has developed a convenient habit: we treat outcomes as moral verdicts. If you succeed, you must have earned… Read more

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What We Learned by Watching What Didn’t Break

Posted on December 26, 2025 Updated on December 26, 2025

Every December, we make the same mistake. We treat the year as something to summarize rather than something to absorb…. Read more

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What Tech Cannot Replace During the Holidays

Posted on December 19, 2025 Updated on December 19, 2025

The year did not collapse. That is not nothing. A school quietly opened a food pantry so families could pick… Read more

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Who Is Rand Paul and Why You Want to Know

Posted on December 15, 2025 Updated on December 15, 2025

Politics tends to flatten people. Over time, complex lives get reduced to a handful of talking points, a voting record,… Read more

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The Unlikely Dignity of Mike Pence

Posted on December 11, 2025 Updated on December 11, 2025

Hoosier politics has long operated on a kind of practical decency: the conviction that even when national passions run hot,… Read more

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