{"id":3160,"date":"2018-06-14T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2018-06-14T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:14:33","slug":"a-lasting-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2018\/06\/14\/a-lasting-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lasting Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Paige<\/em> &#8212; Some professors cast long shadows.<\/p>\n<p>For author, noted prosecutor, and former Mayor of Indianapolis Stephen Goldsmith \u201968, this influence is 50 years and counting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just amazing,\u201d he says, speaking of a constitutional law class taught by Professor Philip Wilder, one Goldsmith says was his favorite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I remember about constitutional law is there were two sides to every issue,\u201d Stephen says. \u201cThere was a majority opinion and a minority opinion and both were very well reasoned. If you read one and you didn\u2019t read the other, you would think that was inevitably correct. The way Phil Wilder taught that was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3163\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/06\/Goldsmith_1072.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3163\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/06\/Goldsmith_1072.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Goldsmith &#8217;68.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking back a half century, Goldsmith remembers thinking of political philosophy and the questions that arose: what are we all about? What are we trying to do as a country? What did (John) Locke intend for us?<\/p>\n<p>He then mentions a textbook that another professor, George Lipsky, used. It\u2019s one Goldsmith still has on his bookshelf today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI underlined every other line in a different color,\u201d Goldsmith explains. \u201cLipsky taught me how to think about threads of philosophy over time and their meanings. What does that mean with the great American experiment and what does it mean in today\u2019s life?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe combination of political theory with Lipsky and constitutional law with Wilder taught me how to think broadly and how to analyze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a man set on public service when he arrived on campus, that was a welcome byproduct on the way to a degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Wabash did was taught me how to think and to apply that critical analysis to public policy,\u201d Stephen says. \u201cI didn\u2019t learn politics at Wabash, I learned how to think about the policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Paige &#8212; Some professors cast long shadows. For author, noted prosecutor, and former Mayor of Indianapolis Stephen Goldsmith \u201968, this influence is 50 years and counting. \u201cIt was just amazing,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/06\/Goldsmith_1072.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}