Leap of Faith: Indiana’s New Mormon Temple
After three weeks of tours that began in July and end August 8, the public won’t be allowed to see any of it ever again (though there’s a “Visitors Welcome” sign on the meetinghouse building nearby).
Matthew Heimbach Has A Dream—A Very Disturbing Dream
Banned from the United Kingdom and banished from Twitter, White Nationalist wunderkind Matthew Heimbach rode his rhetoric to the middle of nowhere: Paoli, Indiana.
Oscar Staple Meryl Streep Coming to IU
For her role as a pill-popping matriarch in this season's August: Osage County, Streep has been nominated in the Best Actress category at Sunday's Academy Awards. It's the eighteenth nomination of her film career, more than any other actor in history.
Working Class
My father came home from work every day with grease under his fingernails. His place of business was a southside auto-parts yard the family referred to as “the store.” The first thing he did upon coming home in the evening was scrub his hands with Lava soap, and even then, you could see the faint but indelible trace of black.
A Lawyer’s Look At The Mike Tyson Rape Trial
At least 15 critical mistakes led directly to Tyson’s conviction.
Alma Matters: Thoughts on Today's Students
Every year about this time, I get the back-to-school itch. The smell of plastic pencil cases fills the air, and I dream about the days when I broke in a pair of stiff new oxfords, donned an itchy Black Watch plaid jumper, and trudged off to School 84.
Wrong Turn
On March 9, 1922, the writer E.B. White, unemployed and with few prospects, packed a Model T Ford and drove across America, reaching Seattle in mid-September. He stuck mainly to roads, except in the prairie states where roads were not yet built; there he took to the open fields. He did this before any reliable system of support—gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and road signs—had been established. Twenty-nine years later, Holiday magazine asked White to make the drive again, writing essays about America along the way. He made it as far as Galeton, Pennsylvania, before turning back, disenchanted and missing his wife. Holiday went to Plan B, which was John Steinbeck, who took the trip in 1960 with his poodle and wrote Travels with Charley.
Phil Gulley: Our Obsession with Stars
"A growing number of Americans now equate fame with expertise, so naturally believed a man who had his own reality show was qualified to lead America."
Donald Cline: The Fertility Doctor Accused of Fraud
How a Zionsville doctor secretly used his own sperm to impregnate more than 50 fertility patients.
Protesting Helped Me Find My Place
As a biracial bisexual student, I have grown up in a kind of limbo. But I'm starting to find myself through the solidarity of protest.