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February 12 2025

Leppert Commentary: Beckwith and Trump are crossing new lines in their quest for clicks and cultural validity

By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen February 12, 2025 I have been thinking about Winston Churchill since Donald Trump announced his planned seizure of the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center last Friday. In 1938, Churchill said, “The Prime Minister (Neville Chamberlain) “...”

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February 05 2025

LEPPERT COMMENTARY: Haggling over the price is not going to make us any healthier

By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen February 5, 2025 It’s an old joke, and though I made a reasonable effort to track down the original source, I failed. However, I did find that early versions of it, dating back to at least 1930, centered on indecent proposals for sex. “...”

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January 29 2025

Leppert Commentary: Braun puts others in their place, just by othering them

By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen January 29, 2025 The word Indiana is literally defined as “the land of the Indians.” When Congress divided the Northwest Territory in 1800, it named the western section the Indiana Territory, and when it became a state in 1816, Indiana b “...”

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January 22 2025

Leppert Commentary: America has a new president, even if it doesn’t know what that means

By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen January 22, 2025 Hear ye! Hear ye, America! It’s Inauguration Week! But please don’t confuse it with infrastructure week. The swearing in of a convicted felon actually did happen on Monday. The striking components of Donald Trump’s sec “...”