Recent Tom Volk Commentaries

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Fish Story
I’ve written ethics-related stories regarding baseball, football, golf and tennis. But this story fished me in! When Lincoln, North Dakota resident Tom Volk dropped his line in the Heart River on Easter Sunday, God must’ve been smiling down on the 41-year-old fisherman as he reeled in a 16-pound, 9-ounce walleye, crushing a state record set last year. “Volk caught the...
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May 31, 2019
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I’ve written about Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff before, but after watching his questioning of Jay Clayton, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence (DNI),...
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The Ethics of Belonging
I recently read a book by a man who has learned some of life’s hardest lessons and, by his own account, is still learning them...
The Best of Us
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The Standard Washington Set
Much has been written about George Washington, our first American president: his command of the Continental Army, his leadership in the fragile birth of a...
Who We Were. Who We Are…
Today, America is 250 years old. This Fourth of July, amid deep national division, it seems worth asking a simple question: Which of our country’s...