Articles filed under Columnists

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  Indy 500 always well worth watching May 24, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• The delicate art of keeping letters lively, civilized May 24, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Jim Slusher: The mission the Daily Herald's letters to the editor column is to host a forum on topics of public concern entirely determined by the public and presented in the singular voice of each individual who writes. But that mission is more easily described than implemented.
  

   

• Catholics won’t go quietly May 23, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Michael Gerson: It is possible that President Obama is making the political calculation that appealing to younger, nonreligious voters is worth the alienation of traditional Catholics.
  

   

• Sometimes, ‘the funnies’ aren’t just about fun May 17, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Jim Slusher: The fact is, as I learned reading the classic panel Pogo, many funnies aim for something more than a light chuckle and some aspire to a depth compatible with any item sharing their print space.
  

   

• Talk with the Editor: To Facebook John is to know John May 17, 2012 12:00 AM
  In this Talk with the Editor, John Lampinen says one of the beauties of the Information Age is an increased connection to readers, sources, colleagues and news figures
  

   

• Talk with the Editor: Do news stories suggest gay stereotypes?May 10, 2012 12:00 AM
  In this Talk with the Editor, John Lampinen asks whether news story references to gender may play into subtle stereotypes.
  

   

• It’s not we who do the comforting and the afflicting May 10, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Jim Slusher: It may be true, as some suggest, that one function of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but its probably more true that our job is to show you the comfortable and the afflicted and let you decide what to do from there.
  

   
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  Pressure now on Hawks' Quenneville May 9, 2012 12:00 AM
  Joel Quenneville got his way when he fired Mike Haviland and kept Mike Kitchen, but the result is he's placed a target on his own back and he'll need to produce next season.
  

   

• Taking a scythe to the Bill of RightsMay 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist George Will: Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions.
  

   
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  Illinois looks to convert freeways to tollways May 7, 2012 12:00 AM
  Hey ... didn't this road used to be free? The Elgin O'Hare Expressway will convert to a tollway and the same could happen to Route 53 through the Northwest suburbs. Does this mean a Cook County vs. Lake County smackdown? “No other county uses sales taxes or motor fuel taxes for state or regional roads,” Buffalo Grove Mayor Jeff Braiman said. “Why should Lake County be any different?”
  

   

• The unknown celebrity May 6, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker:Serious business gets done without notice, thanks in part to the lack of notice. The bin Laden raid was successful largely because no one leaked. Secrets were kept.
  

   

• Torture never an optionMay 4, 2012 12:00 AM
  Op-ed columnist Michael Gosch: Nothing less is at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation. America was founded on a set of moral ideals that we aspired to lead the rest of the world.
  

   

• Jon Will’s gift May 3, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist George Will: In 1972, people with Down syndrome were still commonly called Mongoloids. Now they are called American citizens, about 400,000 of them. Much has improved. There has, however, been moral regression as well.
  

   

• Whatever’s behind it, transparency push is welcome May 3, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Jim Slusher: Do we take all this sudden new candidness as a sign that government officials have abandoned the smoke-filled rooms, or that theyre at least willing now to let us see what goes on in there? You might want to withhold judgment on that one for a while
  

   

• Talk with the Editor: Were we wrong to be cautious in IDing educator? May 3, 2012 12:00 AM
  In his Talk with the Editor, John Lampinen asks whether the paper screwed up by being so slow to identify the Stevenson High School dean who resigned over "inappropriate" texts to a student
  

   

• What immigration ‘crisis’? May 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Eugene Robinson: Wouldnt this be a perfect time to take a deep breath and start talking about reasonable ways to engineer a more rational immigration policy?
  

   

• While Syria burns Apr 29, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect. Moammar Gadhafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing would have been a betrayal of who we are, explained the president. In the year since, the government of Syria has more than threatened massacres. It has carried them out.
  

   

• For Illinois, the bills come due Apr 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist George Will: After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says "our rendezvous with reality has arrived." Actually, Illinois is still reality-averse, so Americans may soon learn the importance of the freedom to fail in a system of competitive federalism.
  

   

• Education replaces housing as the bubble machine Apr 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Froma Harrop: America has turned post-high-school education into a taxpayer-subsidized business a business not unlike real estate at the height of the housing bubble
  

   

• Requiem for one of life’s true storytellers Apr 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Jim Slusher: Then there was Bill Granger. Copy boy. Television reviewer. Newsman. Columnist. Author of 28 -- count em, 28! -- novels. Here was a man who could tell a story.