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 if one reads the Gospels carefully and accepts their theological and historical claims. I am one of those, one who…

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. Since the Constitution originally had partial representation for slaves (three-fifth compromise) they needed to be counted in the census. Over…

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 Johnson’s “A History of the American People.” History has a calming effect on me, and the other evening was no…

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 according to the news service State Affairs which reported this week that the Indiana GOP supermajority allowed twice as many Democrat measures to advance…

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 There is a definite benefit in being able to search Wikipedia rather than pull down an outdated Funk & Wagnalls from the shelf whenever I have a quick question I need answered. Still, I do my human best to avoid reading things on the Internet but then I am human after all.…

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 dying on the hill of principle?” I don’t have any better answer to that question than Mark did, but it…

by Dan Eichenberger M.D., MBA Never before have we witnessed first-hand such a rapid degradation of reality. Common sense seems to have died long ago, but now logic and science are also on their deathbeds. The prognosis that can be revived is yet to be tested. Their deaths directly relate to the “post-modern” worldview, which believes truth is relative and cannot be known. In today’s increasingly secular environment, we are told, “That may be your truth; but it is…

By Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Governments and media often leave gaps in their reporting and investigation, especially where disparities exist. They appear to choose which groups are more important than others, a partial reason that the word “equity” has replaced the word ‘equality.” Equality relies on rights of individuals whereas equity stresses disparate outcomes, collectively, regarding groups. In choosing groups, governments and media exhibit sloppy thinking and investigation. I was reminded of that sloppiness with the recent…

Matt Dillon to the Rescue POLITICS IS COMPLICATED. In recent years I have tried to simplify things by focusing on local elections. There’s not much glamor there but the odds are better, a lot better. While we were slogging from door to door for the unavailing Donald Trump, the Left was cashing in with small ball. “George Soros figured out a clever arbitrage opportunity,” Elon Musk noted last week. “The many small political contests such as district attorneys and judges…

by Mark Franke I must hang around with the wrong people. Every time I think I have made up my mind on an issue, someone challenges that conclusion. Even worse is when the challenge is to my premises. I wrote this between sessions at an American Legion conference in Washington D.C. I was about to meet with an enthusiastic young man representing an organization of veterans resolved to break the power of the two-party system…