by Michael Leppert | Jul 3, 2025 | Politics/Government
Every semester, the students in my business writing class are divided up into teams and are assigned a real-life challenge from a company looking to elevate its performance in any number of ways. It’s an opportunity to research the complexities of a market, to create...
by Michael Leppert | Dec 14, 2023 | Politics/Government
Last week, former House speaker Kevin McCarthy attended the New York Times’s DealBook event where he was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin. During their discussion, McCarthy reminisced about a striking observation he made during the 2019 State of the Union. “…I look...
by Michael Leppert | May 11, 2023 | Pop/Life
When the unions representing movie and television writers announced they would go on strike last week, my instinct was to join their side of the fight. Hey, I write, right? I didn’t even know what the dispute entailed, but I wanted to join my writing sisters and...
by Michael Leppert | Jun 10, 2022 | Politics/Government
I am not a fan of zombie flicks. It has always been a genre featuring human-like beings that just weren’t complex enough to be interesting. A zombie can’t be reasoned with. A zombie can’t understand things. All a zombie wants, its singular purpose,...
by Michael Leppert | May 27, 2022 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Since Tuesday, I have been preoccupied by the speech delivered by Malala Yousafzai to the United Nations Youth Assembly on July 12, 2013. It was her sixteenth birthday, and it is one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard–and I’m a speech teacher. She...
