Franke: The Other Father of our Constitution
Please note that Monday is national Constitution Day. (For immediate release; click on mug shot for high-resolution image.) by Mark Franke James Madison is generally known as the Father of the Constitution, and rightfully so. His record of the debates at the Constitutional Convention are a historical treasure. His partnership with Alexander Hamilton and John Read the full article…
Franke: Immigrant Namesakes
by Mark Franke This column is about immigration. And about the American War for Independence. And about Indiana counties. What do these three topics have to do with each other? Quite a bit, in fact, and it isn’t a stretch to see the linkages. Leo Morris, my colleague at the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, recently Read the full article…
Morris: Numbers Everyone Should Know
by Leo Morris I realized today that I would be sitting down to compose my 51st weekly column for The Indiana Policy Review, just one masterpiece away from that happy anniversary when I will have completed a whole year’s worth of work. So, since I’m sick to death of the bitter political divide that has Read the full article…
Franke: Bourbon and the Tax Man
by Mark Franke I recently completed a three-day tour of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. It was quite educational as well as introducing me to a few new labels to try now that I am back home. Not everything I learned was blissfully enlightening however. At one of the distillery tours, the guide said that the Read the full article…
The Outstater: Lawyers at War
IT’S A WAYS OFF but this Veterans Day let’s vow to use the distinction “hero” with more precision. The mass media has gotten into the habit of assigning it to all dead veterans, preferably ones outside the conservative sphere. Reading such a hero’s recent obituary, I took down the family military medals from a box Read the full article…
The Outstater: The Real Job of Journalism
by Craig Ladwig Knowing for whom to vote is difficult these days. It won’t be any easier if journalists, whatever their political leaning, muddy the ideological labels. Economists talk about “rational” ignorance. Average citizens are “rationally ignorant and apathetic,” writes Dr. Eric Schansberg in the current issue of The Indiana Policy Review. “They know little Read the full article…
