The South Wall: Purdue’s Daniels Pushes Innovation, Academic Rigor
by Andrea Neal Since becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has made headlines for his efforts to lower costs, increase academic rigor and serve new constituencies at Indiana’s public land grant college. His summer announcement that Purdue was acquiring for-profit, on-line Kaplan University with an enrollment of 45,355 foretells Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: Charlottesville, Indiana?
SOME SAY THE DECLINE of representative democracy in Indiana began with air-conditioned meeting rooms and multi-issue legislation. You should doubt that; history is rarely so subtle. But incumbent politicians, especially, find it comforting to think that way. It implies there is time for a gentle correction of course. They tell us we need only be patient for one or two more election cycles until Read the full article…
Houston: The Charlottesville Rally, Part II
LET ME BEGIN with the disclaimer required to be accepted in polite company: I am not a Nazi. I am not a Klansman. I am not a White Supremacist. The most subversive organization I have ever belonged to is the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Next, the confession: I am a civic nationalist, a traditionalist, a Read the full article…
Backgrounder: How Boondoggles Happen
“City Councilman Jason Arp, who routinely votes against city-funded economic development incentives, was the only commissioner to oppose the loan approved Monday.” — Kevin Leininger, “Finances in Place, Work on ‘The Landing’ to Begin this Fall,” Aug 15 Fort Wayne News-Sentinel by John Kessler Economists who study Public Choice Theory are not surprised by the influence Read the full article…
Huston: The Charlottesville Rally
For the use of the membership only. WHERE HAVE ALL the political scientists gone? Why should it be a surprise that when the Democratic Party has embraced intersectional identity politics (as recently declared by its vice-chair) that a corresponding white identity politics should develop on the Right (in its current form independent of the Republican Read the full article…
Backgrounder: A History of Sunday and What It Has to Do With Your Beer
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. In his new book, “A Brief History of Sunday,” Justo Gonzalez explains how we arrived at our sense of Sunday and “the Sabbath.” It is worthwhile to review this history and then consider how it relates to “blue laws” — legislative restrictions on economic activity on Sundays. Before Christianity began to Read the full article…
