The Indiana Policy Review

Category: Indiana Writers Group

  • Keating: Indiana’s Sense of Well-Being

     by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. Is there a link between good local governance and the self-reported well-being of residents? An article in the summer Indiana Policy Review surveys the research and outlines existing data for 45 cities and towns across Indiana in 2013-2014 to weigh factors associated with self-reported levels of well-being. The goal of…

  • Book Review: ‘The Founders at Home’ by Myron Magnet

    The reviewer, an adjunct scholar of the foundation, is formerly the Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Reviewed by Mark Franke It’s difficult being a classical liberal these days. Is one a conservative or libertarian in current political speak? To get all the way down into the verbal gutter…

  • The Outstater: Mitch Daniels in the Land of Fools

    Not for publication, quotation or distribution. For the use of the membership only (630 words). MITCH DANIELS is said to suffer no fools. With the diplomas handed out and the federal student loan money in the bank, it is a good time to reflect on what that might mean for Indiana higher education. Daniels is sympathetic to the thinking…

  • Reality Check

    Q.  If you were to relocate or start a business, which Indiana cities would you consider? Click HERE to participate in this quarter’s sample of membership opinion.

  • Backgrounder: ‘Mad Anthony’ to the Ramparts

    For the use of the membership only (673 words). NOW THAT NEW ORLEANS has rid itself of Robert E. Lee, et al., it surely must be Fort Wayne’s turn. How long can it be, given the new rules of acceptable statuary, before someone smashes Gen. Anthony Wayne to smithereens? For if political correctness is the measure,…

  • Book Review: A ‘Florida’ Vacation? Rethinking Eco-Devo

    (For release May 26 and thereafter.) by Jason Arp Being a city councilman in a medium-sized city, you are going to come across the writings of Dr. Richard Florida in one way or another. Real estate developers, Chambers of Commerce heads and politicians of all stripes have learned that Florida’s concept of “quality of place”…

  • The Outstater: All the Sanctimony Fit to Print

    (Not for publication; for the use of the membership only.) A FEW DAYS AGO the top story on the front page of our morning newspaper was not the threat of a North Korean nuclear attack or the chaos in Washington. It wasn’t even the impact of increased state taxes on a dwindling middle class. No, it was that a…

  • Half Past the Month: The Silence on Private Property

    “Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws.” — Frederic Bastiat by Craig Ladwig Watching last night’s meeting of our city council, the fellow in the next chair leaned over to…

  • Backgrounder: First Amendment Fantasies

    “We are not fake news. We are not failing news organizations. And we are not the enemy of the American people.” — Jeff Mason, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association by Craig Ladwig It is a question that has dogged some of us for years: If it is a good thing to break up Wall…

  • Op-Ed: Yes, Capitalism Is a Good Idea

    by Cmdr. John Pickerill All the prosperity we enjoy today we owe to capitalism. For decades progressivists have attempted to challenge this notion. One of the most notable was Phil Donahue in his 1979 interview with Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Donahue posed this question to Friedman: “When you see around the globe…