“Bullet” is related to “ballot” (from French boulette, diminutive of boule “ball”). In some places and times, actual bullets were used to cast votes. With the resignation this week of the state Republican Party chairwoman, the talk is all about fixing the Indiana…

by Mark Franke I have seen the future, and it works!” wrote the journalist Lincoln Steffens after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919. Except that it didn’t. Why bring this up now, nearly 30 years after the fall of the…

Editor’s note: A recent article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (paywall) spins socialism as merely “an adjunct to democratic society.” It is of course more profound than that and the foundation is distributing essays from credentialed Indiana sources detailing its economic…

by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. When I was growing up, baseball was the only professional sport that received considerable national attention. I rooted for the team my father rooted for, the Milwaukee Braves. I asked why and he said, “I rooted…

by Barry Keating, Ph.D. I want to start in New Carlisle, Indiana, a town of about eighteen hundred people in St. Joseph County, which recently found itself negotiating with the largest company on earth — and doing so, at first,…