Registration Is Open for Spring Journal
Please click HERE to update your membership and register for an advance copy of the spring journal. Your donation supports the quarterly journal, policy seminars and our weekly backgrounders and columns. Coming in the Spring Indiana Policy Review Arthur Russell Quilhot | ‘The Quilhot Bid’ (Morris)Cover Essay | Scoring the Indiana Legislature (Arp)Special Report | Saturation CRT (Abbott)Morris | A Truth-in-Legislation Act / Read the full article…
Morris: A Truth-in-Legislation Act
by Leo Morris The Indiana Senate recently demonstrated what seemed to be a prime example of legislative thuggery in action. A bill was before senators that would have, among other things, changed the burden of proof from parents to schools in certain special education disputes. They not only defeated the measure but bullied its sponsor, Read the full article…
Schansberg: Five and Dime and Dollar and More
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. Dollar Tree was in the news last month, announcing that its standard price will increase from a $1 to $1.25. It’s a sign of the times that “dollar” stores (including Family Dollar and Dollar General) are moving beyond a mere dollar to higher prices. This isn’t a new phenomenon. Have you heard of Read the full article…
The Outstater
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS covering politicians it is hard to admit they still terrify me. This week it was particularly so, beginning with Joe Biden’s blunt assertion that we shouldn’t worry about nuclear war. Is there something he isn’t sharing? Do we have a secret weapon that will render all of the mad men in the Read the full article…
The Outstater
Chicago Politics, Indiana Style WHAT KIND OF CITY would you have if venal operators could be rewarded with municipal contracts relative to their political contributions — aside of course from the obvious moral degradation? Let me help answer that. You would have a city that functions to serve arbitrary goals, ones that conform not to citizen priorities but Read the full article…
Morris: Who Owns the History?
by Leo Morris The Kokomo Tribune has published a fascinating story about teachers-in-training at Indiana State University and their nearly universal disapproval of proposed state legislation that would limit how race and other topics are treated in the classroom. Some of their comments are quite revealing. “If we attempt to teach history without controversy, then we Read the full article…
