The Outstater: Republicanism’s ‘Big Mistake’
“We stand athwart history, yelling stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” — William F. Buckley in his 1955 mission statement for National Review magazine INDIANA IS AN EXAMPLE, a bad one, of what a friend dubs “Republicanism,” Read the full article…
Newsletter: Who Cares About Education Spending?
(For the use of the membership only) FOR ALL the pointed discussions about Indiana public education this past month, there were questions that went unaddressed — obvious questions, some would say. Everybody likes to talk about process, we learn, but nobody likes to talk about efficiency. What would happen, for example, if Indiana turned down Read the full article…
Bohanon: Mixing Religion and Economic Disciplines
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. It is graduation season, and college seniors move from the hallowed halls of the university to the wider world and workplace. The ceremony itself includes a procession, numerous speeches, awarding each graduate a diploma, and an official confirmation of the degrees. It takes on a religious aura even in a secular Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (23): Committee Picked Indy as Capital
by Andrea Neal Anyone who’s ever served on a committee can relate to the old laugh line that a committee is a group of people who keep minutes and waste hours. Such was not the case, however, in 1820, when 10 Hoosier men were named to a committee to find a new state capital. They Read the full article…
Education Standards: The Next Step Redux
by Sandra Stotsky, Ed.D. Writing in National Review Online, Rick Hess and Mike McShane of the American Enterprise Institute make the complaint that critics of Common Core have not come up with the next steps to “repeal and replace” for states that want to restore academic integrity to their K-12 curriculum in English-language arts and Read the full article…
The Outstater: Confessions of a Baby Boomer
“I’m drowning here, and you’re describing the water.” — Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) in “As Good as It Gets” THERE IS a troublesome thought that occurs to Hoosiers of a certain age. They are the ones who lived through the agonizing reappraisals of the 1960s and 1970s, the narcissism that followed, the staged social sensitivity, Read the full article…
