Franke
Passion Week and Unholy Passions by Mark Franke We are in Holy or Passion Week, the most significant eight days on the Christian calendar. It is a week of remembrance of the original Passion Week which occurred nearly 2,000 years ago. The week proceeds along a very emotional roller-coaster ride for Christians. It begins with Read the full article…

McGowan
Campus Cancel Culture:Technological Solipsism? “Ann Coulter Storms Out After Lying to IU Students for 75 Minutes.” — headline in the April 2 Indiana University Daily Student by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Anyone attentive to the news is aware of students shouting down speakers on college campuses. The incidents at Yale and the University of California’s Hastings College Read the full article…

The Outstater
Coulter in Bloomington I DON’T RELISH the castigation of a student editorial, having written some terrible ones as an undergraduate. Even so, the Friday offering from the editorial staff of the Indiana Daily Student deserves attention on a couple of levels. First, it is the only in-person report of a campus speech by the columnist Ann Coulter. It was Read the full article…

Morris
A New Fun Fact for Indiana by Leo Morris Here is a fun fact for your amusement, which I just invented: The Grand Canyon is seven miles longer than Indiana. OK, I didn’t “invent” it. I discovered it. You do that by taking two discrete pieces of information and putting them together in a way Read the full article…

The Outstater
Where Are All the People? ACCORDING TO the most recent census figures my city gained only a few hundred people in 2021 through migration, perhaps a quarter of it from other countries. When you figure in natural population loss and screen for a solid middle-class citizenry we may be at stagnation levels. This is so even though Read the full article…

White Paper: Critical Race Theory 102
by Jeff Abbott, Ph.D. Some people believe there is a hidden conspiracy among certain groups to clandestinely push Critical Race Theory (CRT) upon the nation’s school children. However, they are wrong. No one is covertly pushing CRT upon innocent school children from the shadows. They are instead pushing CRT from their public web sites and Read the full article…

