Category: Indiana Writers Group

by Dan Eichenberger M.D. Language remains one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Spoken words helped early humans cooperate, hunt and pass down knowledge. Written language allowed civilizations to record laws, ideas and stories for future generations. Today, language is under attack. The political Left, particularly progressive activists who dominate many colleges, news outlets and major corporations,…

by Mark Franke With the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, there is a plethora of new books written about this major event. Most focus on the Declaration’s language and its meaning, especially its most memorable sentence in the second paragraph. That’s understandable but I am a contrarian by nature so I have been wondering…

Common Sense Catches Up THIRTY YEARS AGO, George Witwer, a founding scholar of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and now CEO of Cavo Health, won a dark-horse race for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor at a contested state convention. He did so campaigning on the floor, delegate-by-delegate, with a simple argument, “Property taxes mean you never…

by John F. Gaski, Ph.D. The way Donald Trump has faltered on Iran is far beyond what we could have foreseen. The latest Iran pseudo-negotiations represent another surrender by President Trump. We never thought he would cave to Iran as Biden and Obama did, but it now appears that he doesn’t have the stomach to “finish the…

by Dan Eichenberger MD, MBA To prevent the further erosion of ordered society, Indiana must take a clear and permanent stand against the Left’s campaign to detach law from biological reality. Activists have spent years pressuring institutions to replace objective sex with subjective “gender identity.” The General Assembly and voters should amend the state Constitution to…

by Mark Franke With the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, there are a lot of new books written about this major event. Most focus on the Declaration’s language and its meaning, especially its most memorable sentence in the second paragraph. One historian, Stanford’s Michael Auslin, has taken a refreshingly different approach by telling the…

A Murder Most ‘Random’ IT WAS MY FAULT. Even after a gracious interview with a Capital Chronicle columnist, Stacey Compton, I didn’t get my point across, the ideological gap being just too wide. I wanted to object to the reflexive description in recent murder stories of black-on-white violence as “random.” It is anything but that.  In its statistical context, the word means “being…

The Fraud of Official Art “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture,’ I reach for my Lugar.” —  Hermann Göring THE MAYOR this week unveiled “The Garner,” our city’s latest acquisition of outdoor art. It is shown above so you can judge for yourself but let me say I find it hopelessly abstruse. It took even the artist himself, Sacho Primo,…

by Dan Eichenberger, M.D. With Father’s Day approaching, the cultural conversation about men, fathers, and masculinity deserves more care than slogans usually allow. This is a season when many families pause to honor fathers, grandfathers, mentors and father figures whose steady presence has shaped lives in quiet but lasting ways. For that reason, the way society…

Alternative Families by the Numbers THE GOVERNOR is getting grief over declaring June “Nuclear Family Month.” Does he think there’s something wrong with non-nuclear families? Well, there’s a two-part answer to that, and some aren’t going to like the second part. First, let’s acknowledging that raising a family, any family, is a heroic endeavor. Raising a family as a single…