Indiana at 200 (27): Free Blacks Migrated to Indiana
by Andrea Neal Like other pioneers, free African-Americans came to Indiana in search of land and liberty and, for the most part, found both. Beginning in the 1820s and continuing until the eve of the Civil War, they migrated in family groups to Indiana and established farming societies that valued hard work, education and faith. More Read the full article…
Watts: A New Generation’s Constitutional Perspective
By Tyler Watts, Ph.D. Caesar had Brutus, Manning has Patriot fans and state Sen. David Long has Sheila Kennedy. Ms. Kennedy, a law and public-policy professor at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, made comments over the weekend pooh-poohing Senator Long’s goal of restoring fiscal sanity to the federal government through a state-led constitutional amendment process. Read the full article…
Quick Hit: Tulley Blew it, not Mourdock
For the use of the membership only (119 words) MATTHEW TULLEY, the Indianapolis Star columnist, leans on a tautology in his June 9 blast in what he imagines is the direction of Indiana conservatives. In “Richard Mourdock Blows it Once Again,” he lectures the former GOP Senate nominee that there is nothing, nothing comparable to Read the full article…
Bohanon: Do Hoosiers Want to Be Hoosiers?
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. A basic assumption of economics is the Axiom of Revealed Preference. This is fundamental to economic analysis and distinguishes it from other branches of the social sciences. In a nutshell, the axiom says: “What someone does tells us more about what they value than what they say.” Interesting, it is similar Read the full article…
The Bergdahl Delusion: Man Overboard
For the use of the membership only (362 words) THIS GENERATION is going to have to study war some more, alas. Even admirals today don’t seem to know how it works outside their politically corrected service academies. Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, commented the other day that . . . wait, they assign Read the full article…
Quick Hit: A Political Culture
For the use of the membership only (214 words) Indiana politicians settle so comfortably into the role of placeholders. When events reveal a policy void, they rush to fill the space where leadership otherwise might be. This week, one of them noted that the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) doesn’t work. “If we are to Read the full article…
