Franke: The Salutary Effect of Religious Observance
by Mark Franke It is Holy Week for Christians, that most profound of weeks, the pivotal point of the Christian liturgical year. This year Christian Holy Week and Jewish Passover coincide, as they do most years. As well they should, since the first Good Friday and Easter occurred at the Passover. This was no coincidence Read the full article…
Arp: Are They Lying to Us About a City’s Growth?
by Jason Arp Every 10 years in this country a census has been taken since 1790. This decennial census was created for the purpose of establishing and maintaining congressional districts and has ben used by states, counties and municipalities for their own redistricting needs. From the beginning there were data needs besides simply counting the residents. Read the full article…
Three Questions for the American People
Three Questions for the American People As we flailed around trying to fend off the multiple attacks on our traditional America, we realized that those attacks have already been addressed — 26 years ago, long before the fraudulent “1619 Project” or the inanity of Black Lives Matter. I am in the habit of taking from my shelf the late Paul Read the full article…
The Outstater
Evil Party, Stupid Party, Cont’d “We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. I’m very proud to be a member of the stupid party. — M. Stanton Evans LET THIS SERVE as my roundup of the legislative session: The more Republicans, the more Democrat policies. That’s Read the full article…
Franke: The Iconoclasm of the Internet
by Mark Franke We live in the information age and that is supposed to be a Good Thing. I concede the point, partially. There is a definite benefit in being able to search Wikipedia rather than pull down an outdated Funk & Wagnalls from the shelf whenever I have a quick question I need answered. Read the full article…
Morris: Our Broken Political System
by Leo Morris In the middle of his most recent offering, the Indiana Policy Review book reviewer Mark Franke asked one of the most important questions of the modern political era. In fact, if our polity is to survive its current state of fractured fragility, it might be the question: “Where is the red line between reasonable compromise and Read the full article…
