"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
In an email alert, Chicago News Cooperative supplies this summary while linking to Crain’s Chi Business story about Chi Trib editor finding life after newspapering:
Back in the Game: Former Trib editor and CNC board member Ann Marie Lipinski returns to journalism as director of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation.
Eh??? Back in a sense, yes. But in meta-journalism, which is to journalism what metaphysics is to physics, right?
Roger Pilon of Cato Institute on the death of principle in American governmental life:
“Unfortunately, over the course of this century Congress has largely ignored the constitutional limits on its power. And the courts, especially after Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court with six additional members, have only abetted the resulting growth of government by fashioning constitutional doctrines that have no basis whatever in the Constitution. As a consequence, many of the programs Congress oversees today are without constitutional foundation, having resulted from acts that Congress had no authority.
Not that principled behavior hasn’t been the exception in human history. But still . . .
Blithe Spirit 