Steadily, as a people, we are shaving away at our moral values ... slipping to the unprincipled side of right and wrong.
Our worst instincts have led into an opioid crisis ravaging the Appalachians and elsewhere, growing state-by-state acceptance of marijuana, tolerance of pornography and four-letter language, and unrelenting racial and political divisions.
A microcosm of this behavior is the world of collegiate sports. Consider how we've ...
— Loosened in permitting gambling on college events, multiple states diving in at a time when the basketball world is alerted to under-table payments by shoe companies and coaches to influence the choices of "unpaid" athletes who might be receptive to another point-shaving crisis.