Franke: Trump as Andrew Jackson
by Mark Franke It is a matter of discipline with me to avoid listening to political speeches. They are hardly edifying and the current trend is a pronounced one toward less and less enlightenment each time a politician rises to his legs and starts talking. Last week’s State of the Union address by President Biden Read the full article…
The Outstater
IU Tenure and the Heidt Memo WE APPLAUD the Indiana Legislature’s revolutionary attempts this session to reign in group-think and lockstep tenure in the university system. It’s about time. We call it “revolutionary” in the sense the Founder’s used the term and as it is explained in our newly published “Indiana Mandate: A Return to the Read the full article…
Indiana Mandate: A Return to Founding Principles
Help Us Host a Signing Party The book is on sale! We have begun scheduling signing parties in advance of July 4th celebrations and the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tell us who you want to invite and pick a time, date and place. We’ll do the rest, asking nationally syndicated cartoonist Gary Varvel or one of our Read the full article…
Franke: The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence
by Mark Franke It seems one can’t pick up a newspaper or journal without seeing a major piece on artificial intelligence. 9Until perhaps a year or so ago, I hadn’t even heard the term except in science fiction and now it gets more Google hits than Taylor Swift’s antics at a Kansas City Chiefs football Read the full article…
The Outstater
An Eternal Education Conundrum I BELONG TO A STUDY GROUP that takes up a public policy issue each month. Over the months, one thing has become painfully clear: Viable and sometimes obvious solutions are more plentiful than the will to apply them. Indeed, in many cases it would be just a matter of noticing what’s going on. Read the full article…
The Outstater
Inside Journalism: What to Know IT WAS A COMMENDABLE practice in the Old Journalism that you did not write on the internal workings of the news room — no “inside baseball,” they said. Readers didn’t have time for it; all they wanted was reasonably accurate reports of the city’s goings-on, prescient whenever possible. That is all out Read the full article…
