Huston: The Inevitability of an Attack Here
For the use of the membership only (674 words) by Tom Charles Huston The French domestic intelligence service, the Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI), is one of the two best internal security operations in the world. The other is Shin Bet, the Israeli Security Agency. The successor of the Direction de la Surveillance Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: Research First, Then Publicize
by Craig Ladwig You know there is a political element when the sponsors of a research study announce in advance what the research is going to find. So it is with a study from the University of Southern Indiana directed by the Indiana Economic Development Association (IEDA) that promises to debunk the “myths” of tax-increment Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Mizzou Redux, 1970
(For the use of the membership only) by Craig Ladwig I have been waiting for one of the many famous graduates of the Missouri School of Journalism to step forward and explain the difference between the protests of the early 1970s and what occurred this week. It is left to me, a graduate-school washout there, Read the full article…
The Outstater: Trust and Grow
A LOCAL COUNCILMAN was discussing what the recent municipal elections might mean for economic development, the subject of this quarter’s Indiana Policy Review. He surprised us by suggesting that his town’s fortune would not depend on any of the expansive plans being floated by the regional economic-development group. It would depend on civic character, specifically Read the full article…
The South Wall: ‘The Trouble with ISTEP’
by Andrea Neal It’s time for Indiana lawmakers to scrap ISTEP. The test is nothing but trouble, and it’s taking valuable time away from classroom learning. During the two years I served on the State Board of Education, I developed a short list of what’s wrong with the state’s high-stakes exam, formally known as the Read the full article…
Bohanon: A Definition of Christian Charity
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. Kwang Jin Kim was born to a middle-class family in North Korea. In his book “Under the Same Sky,” he gives a first-hand account of his family’s fall to destitution during the North Korean famine in the late 1990s. Forced to sell all it had to get enough to eat, the Read the full article…
