Instead of exposing and shaming scammers, swindlers, and shady businesses — like hitting a donkey with a stick to make it move — here’s a way you can reward good people and good businesses for being honest and trustworthy and truly helpful, a reward to encourage good people to move toward positive goals. The Better Business Bureau’s annual Torch Awards …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:59 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSLater in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze learns about a new student movement on the IU campus devoted to freeing animals from cruel and secretive experimentation programs like the one that uses baby birds to train Artificial Intelligence robots. Carbon offsets are questionable as a tool to reduce …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:07 — 5.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, Civic Conversations welcomes Professor Charles Geyh, a Distinguished Professor of Law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. A widely recognized expert on judicial conduct, Proerfoess Geyh has served as a witness in a U.S. Senate impeachment trial, leading to dozens of media appearances on the subject. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 42.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn April 22nd 1970, Democratic Senator Garland Nelson, originator of the idea of Earth Day, proclaimed: Winning the environmental war is a whole lot tougher challenge by far than winning any other war in the history of Man. It will take $20 to $25 billion more a …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 45.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLet’s begin with Emerson’s 1870 lecture “The Natural History of the Intellect.” What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:00 — 65.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn a piece called “Jazz Democracy,” a Slate review of The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, January 1965-June 1968, Adam Shatz writes: It’s a commonplace that jazz is the musical expression of American democracy. The unfortunate truth is that jazz more often resembles the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:27 — 316.4KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed a bill this afternoon, putting in place sexual harassment policies for state legislators. House Bill 1309, requires all members of the Indiana General Assembly to undergo no less than an hour of annual sexual harassment prevention training, and no less than an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:00 — 65.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn a piece called “Jazz Democracy,” a Slate review of The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, January 1965-June 1968, Adam Shatz writes: It’s a commonplace that jazz is the musical expression of American democracy. The unfortunate truth is that jazz more often resembles …
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