The Outstater
Indiana’s Law School ‘Quotas’ CALL US SILLY but we had assumed that Indiana applicants, academic credentials being equal, would have priority at the tax-supported Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. We were wrong. Some time ago we asked an adjunct scholar of the foundation, at the time a member of the law school’s admissions committee, to review the school’s policies Read the full article…
Book Review: ‘The Coming Storm’
by Mark Franke If you want to get depressed or even a tad frightened, read “The Coming Storm: Power, Conflicts, and Warnings from History” (Henry Holt and Company 2026, 219 pages plus notes, $21 hardcover at Amazon) by Yale professor Odd Arne Westad. The book is an analysis of great power politics in the 21st century Read the full article…
Eichenberger: The Entitlement Trap
by Dan Eichenberger M.D. In 2025, the U.S. federal government is projected to spend around $7 trillion — roughly 23 percent of the nation’s entire economic output. More than half of that spending goes to mandatory “entitlement” programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other benefits. Social Security alone accounts for about 22 percent of Read the full article…
Keating: South Bend Utility Assistance
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. For low-income households, putting food on the table is the highest priority-and rightly so. Yet electricity, water, heating and telephone bills strongly increase the stress levels of both low- and middle-income households. This month, approximately 41,500 households received a letter this from the South Bend Mayor describing the City’s Utility Read the full article…
The Outstater
Women Journalists Stressed AN INDIANAPOLIS EDITOR is crusading for more gentlemanly treatment of female journalists. She says they are being merciless trolled by online critics, suspiciously male. After a generation of “I am woman; hear me roar,” we aren’t going to put that on our worry list. An editor for the Capital Chronicle cites a United Nations study Read the full article…
The Outstater
Hooray for Rokita, Braun TWO MORE OF THE ISSUES in our latest “Indiana Mandate” were taken up this week: The U.S. House wisely chose a single time standard and, more importantly, Indiana rejected socially ruinous affirmative action. Todd Rokita, Indiana Attorney General, issued a formal opinion stating that race and sex-based components of state contracting programs are unconstitutional. Read the full article…
