By Jathan Janove– In my life, I’ve had two uncomfortably close encounters with police officers. Having read coverage and seen videos from Michael Brown to George Floyd, I have little…
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By Jathan Janove– Following a career as an attorney litigating school desegregation cases, Claire Hartfield shifted her professional focus to creating new education options for youth in under-resourced urban communities.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Despite popular belief, St. Augustine probably did not say that the person who sings prays twice (see: Because sometimes the internet is wrong: Augustine: He who…
From Ancient Greek to Modern Corporate Reorganization – Jathan Janove Interview of Prof. Douglas Baird
0By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Douglas Baird is the Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and former dean of its law school. He’s a self-proclaimed…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I spent many happy hours as a boy visiting the now-closed Trappist monastery in Huntsville, Utah. It is impossible to catalogue or pigeonhole the wide swath…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The 2020 Memorial Day holiday—75 years after World War II ended—always was going to be rather memorable. It became simply unforgettable, however, when I filled in…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Ralph Mabey has had a long, distinguished career as a federal bankruptcy judge, law professor, and national bankruptcy attorney, including serving as a court-appointed mediator…
By Gary Topping– We love our backyard, which is carved out of a wooded mountainside just outside the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. There is a low, split-level deck which…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Standing in my makeshift COVID-19 basement home office one recent overcast day, a rather dismal conversation stormed in my head. Death tolls. Infections. Risks. Layoffs. 60…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I have many old friends in—and fond memories of—my boyhood hometown of Ogden, Utah. Only one, however, beckons me back there in the dark dead of…