Franke
America: Melting Pot or Boiling Cauldron? by Mark Franke I learned during what many today consider the benighted 1950s about a concept termed the Melting Pot. This was taught in what we called social studies back then, which included a healthy dose of American and Indiana history. The principle of the Melting Pot is that Read the full article…
Keating
Questioning the Jobs Rhetoric by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. Americans are awakening to the fact that political rhetoric concerning job creation is no longer so reassuring. Why exactly are politicians so focused on efforts to increase labor force participation? Will policies intended to increase participation actually be effective? U.S. job growth this September came in 300,000 Read the full article…
Morris
Education and the Great Divide by Leo Morris If a group of parents request that certain material be removed from the classroom, that is not censorship or “book banning,” Is that a provocative statement? I don’t think it should be. Today’s case study is from central Indiana. Former Hoosier Julia Scheeres is “somewhat amused” but Read the full article…
The Outstater
The Stadium Game Plays Out IN ANY DISCUSSION of economic development the success of our publicly financed baseball stadium is invariably trumpeted. It is surrounded by similarly financed masses of concrete and rebar, e.g., a convention center, apartment complexes, parking garages and now an abandoned factory transformed into a mixed-use district “of innovation, energy and culture.” Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
The Jan. 6 Record Set Straight(er) WE OWE to the Claremont Institute some insight into the unholy mess that was Jan. 6, 2021, and the fateful decision of the Vice President to certify the election of Joe Biden as President. It is not what we have been told. The narrative to date is that the Vice President had little Read the full article…
Franke
Returning Civility to America’s Discourse by Mark Franke America was built by a group of people who disagreed about many things but still found enough common ground to write our Constitution and forge a stable republic. The battle for ratification had its elevated oratory, to be sure, but the new nation began in an environment Read the full article…
