Need a Downtown Boost? Sponsor an IndyCar Race

A once-great series survives today only because of local governments’ economic development efforts.

Makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice

The LImits of Free Speech

Contrary to what some claim, freedom of speech is not the most important right enjoyed in a free society.

Andrews: Responsibility Movement Key to U.S.

Responsibility Reborn is an excellent charter for the responsibility movement. Despite the challenges of contemporary political life and the excesses of American culture, Andrews’ treatise is infused with optimism. The next few years are critical in determining whether America will stagnate or see a rebirth of responsibility.

Isaacson Reveals the Many Layers of Steve Jobs

Though Jobs authorized the biography — handpicking Isaacson to write it — he exercised no control over it and did not ask to review it. He encouraged people from his past to speak with Isaacson and encouraged them to be forthcoming. To say that Jobs was a complicated human being is an understatement. Most great men are very complicated, and good biographers can peel back the many layers. Isaacson succeeds in showing us that practically nothing and nobody is the way it seems. That’s a lesson the Occupy Wall Street crowd could stand to learn.

Oh, the humanity!