Franke: New Year’s Resolutions for the Nation
by Mark Franke January 1 means most of us will spend too much time developing a list of resolutions for improving our lives in the new year. And most of us, myself included, will spend more time creating the list than actually executing it. Exercising more and losing weight are the old standbys but I Read the full article…
The Outstater
IU Law and Stereotypes “Have we reached the ultimate age of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?” — Thomas Sowell WHY WOULD AN INDIANA LAW SCHOOL abide an admissions policy that rejects hundreds of Read the full article…
The Outstater
Politics: The Big Shift “There is life and then there is life in the newspapers.” Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), British author THE MORNING AFTER THE ELECTION I awoke to the news and immediately and for the next few hours experienced what was for me an unusual sense of well-being. I write on politics, after all, and my normal state Read the full article…
Franke: Reflections on the Election
by Mark Franke Now that the election is a month in the past, it is time to take stock of what we learned from it. Not much. Or perhaps, too much. If the political pundits are to be believed, the Republicans won a clear mandate. True, Donald Trump won the presidency and the Republicans turned four Read the full article…
The Outstater
On the Democrats’ Weirdity AMERICAN VOTERS have figured out that today’s Democrat Party is odd, its liberal wing palpably so, even visibly. David Harsanyi of the Washington Examiner argues that is the lesson of Biden’s election loss: “Yearning for a government that upholds law and order is a normal inclination for any citizen. Attacking people who demand the law be Read the full article…
The Outstater
Will We Take Back our Colleges? The Stanford Review: “What is the most important problem in the world right now?” Stanford President Jonathan Levin: “There’s no answer to that question. There are too many important problems to give you a single answer.” The Stanford Review: “That is an application question that we have to answer to apply Read the full article…
