Op-Ed: The Press as the ‘Enemy’
by Craig Ladwig The president didn’t actually say that American journalism was the enemy of the people but he should have. What he said was that “fake news,” not a free press, is the enemy. Nonetheless, 300 newspapers signed onto a campaign to protest the president’s comments and declare the importance of their particular definition Read the full article…
Morris: Hate Crime
by Leo Morris The defacement of Jewish temple property in Carmel with Nazi symbols seems to have created a tipping point in favor of finally enacting a hate crimes law in Indiana. Business leaders, editorial pages and politicians up to and including the governor are urging swift action in the next session of the General Read the full article…
Neal: Making Sense of Mike Pence
by Andrea Neal Making sense of Mike Pence. That was the task I faced over the past year in writing “Pence – The Path to Power,” the first comprehensive biography of the Hoosier vice president. He is a man of both predictability and paradox. Since first running for Congress in 1988, he has never wavered Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
(For the use of the membership only, not for publication, distribution or quotation.) THE TWO FOUNDING INTELLECTUAL MODELS for this foundation happen to be “persons of color,” as it is now phrased, Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dinesh D’Souza. The latter we have brought to Indiana many times for seminars, talks and research projects. The former Read the full article…
Morris: Ernie Pyle and the History of War
by Leo Morris Reading up on my journalistic hero Ernie Pyle, I came across this startling paragraph near the end of a mostly laudatory article about him in American Heritage magazine: “Ernie Pyle had some off days in his wartime columns. Sometimes he laid on the Hoosier folksiness a bit too heavily. Sometimes the GI’s Read the full article…
Franke: What Happened to the American Dream?
by Mark Franke I am a child of the 1950’s; I freely and proudly admit that. My entire outlook on life was formed by my upbringing during that decade in the home, the church and the school. One concept we learned about our nation was its potential for everyone to make himself better through hard Read the full article…
