sitemap - The Indiana Policy Review

The Indiana Policy Review

Pages

Posts

Editorials/Petitions/White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Indy Transit Task Force Misses the Mark – 19 December 2011
WHITE PAPER | Indiana’s History of School Choice: Attempts to Derail New K-12 Scholarship Program Threaten Decades of Choice – 28 November 2011
WHITE PAPER: State and Local Tax Revenue per Hoosier Resident – 21 October 2011
WHITE PAPER: Projected Savings from School Reform – 23 August 2011
WHITE PAPER: An Open Letter to the Next Governor – 26 July 2011
WHITE PAPER | Full-Day Kindergarten – 15 April 2011
WHITE PAPER | Collective Bargaining Reform – 14 April 2011
BACKGROUNDER: Keeping Union Ballots Secret – 16 February 2011
PETITION: Testimony on SB 148 to Repeal Indiana Inheritance Tax – 9 February 2011
The Cost of Compromise: Impact of the 2011-2012 Estate Tax – 3 February 2011

Indiana Writers Group

The Mocking Generations – 3 September 2026
Franke: Unalienable Rights – 31 August 2026
A Defense of the ALPR Cameras – 28 August 2026
Eichenberger: Meritocracy – 27 August 2026
Public ‘Service’ Understood – 23 August 2026
The Outstater – 20 August 2026
Franke Book Review: Mansfield – 19 August 2026
The Outstater – 15 August 2026
Eichenberger: Common Sense – 14 August 2026
The Outstater – 13 August 2026
Keating: Why Prisons Are Needed – 12 August 2026
The Outstater – 7 August 2026
Franke: ‘The End of Reading’ – 7 August 2026
The Outstater – 4 August 2026
McGowan: Where Are the Men? – 2 August 2026
The Outstater – 31 July 2026
The Outstater – 27 July 2026
Book Review: ‘The Coming Storm’ – 26 July 2026
Eichenberger: The Entitlement Trap – 22 July 2026
Keating: South Bend Utility Assistance – 19 July 2026
The Outstater – 19 July 2026
The Outstater – 17 July 2026
The Outstater – 14 July 2026
Franke: Summer Parades – 12 July 2026
Gaski: A Filibuster Primer – 11 July 2026
The Outstater – 8 July 2026
Eichenberger: The West’s Suicide Pact – 8 July 2026
Eichenberger: The West’s Suicide Pact – 7 July 2026
Franke: Our Revolutionary War Vet – 5 July 2026
The Outstater – 30 June 2026
Eichenberger: The Linguistic Assault on Reality – 30 June 2026
Franke: The Declaration Parchment – 29 June 2026
The Outstater – 26 June 2026
Gaski: U.S. Military Wins, Trump Surrender – 24 June 2026
Eichenberger: A Definition of Men, Women – 23 June 2026
Book Review: ‘National Treasure’ by Michael Auslin – 23 June 2026
The Outstater – 22 June 2026
The Outstater – 17 June 2026
Eichenberger: Father’s Day – 16 June 2026
The Outstater – 15 June 2026
McGowan: Does Science Shortchange Women and Girls? – 11 June 2026
Keating: A Rich Man’s Country? – 11 June 2026
Franke: The Pledge of Allegiance – 10 June 2026
The Outstater – 8 June 2026
Book Review: ‘Rage and the Republic’ – 8 June 2026
The Outstater – 4 June 2026
Eichenberger: The Victim Mentality – 3 June 2026
Franke: Insanity Defense – 1 June 2026
The Outstater – 31 May 2026
The Outstater – 28 May 2026
Franke: Memorial Day 2026 – 18 May 2026
The Outstater – 15 May 2026
The Outstater – 7 May 2026
The Outstater – 1 May 2026
The Outstater – 29 April 2026
Eichenberger: Pride — From Icarus to Instagram – 29 April 2026
Franke: Casinos – 27 April 2026
The Outstater – 24 April 2026
The Outstater – 23 April 2026
Eichenberger: Christian Nationalism – 21 April 2026
Gaski: Save the SAVE Act, Not the Filibuster – 21 April 2026
The Outstater – 17 April 2026
Watts: Book Review – 15 April 2026
The Outstater – 15 April 2026
Eichenberger: A Bubble-Wrapped Childhood – 14 April 2026
Franke: Book Review – 13 April 2026
The Outstater – 11 April 2026
Watts: ‘Birthright Capitalism’ Beats Socialism – 10 April 2026
The Outstater – 8 April 2026
Schansberg: Capital Gains and Inflation – 7 April 2026
Franke: Baseball 2026 – 6 April 2026
The Outstater – 1 April 2026
Franke: Consent of the Governed – 30 March 2026
The Outstater – 26 March 2026
The Outstater – 20 March 2026
Varvel: John Maynard Keynes – 17 March 2026
The Outstater – 17 March 2026
The Outstater – 13 March 2026
Varvel: John Dewey – 13 March 2026
The Outstater – 11 March 2026
The Outstater – 10 March 2026
Franke: Immigration – 8 March 2026
The Outstater – 6 March 2026
The Outstater – 3 March 2026
The Outstater – 25 February 2026
Gaski: The Dems’ Affinity for Illegals – 25 February 2026
Franke Book Review: A History of Money – 23 February 2026
The Outstater – 20 February 2026
The Outstater – 18 February 2026
Franke: Daylight Saving Folly – 16 February 2026
The Outstater – 12 February 2026
Book: ‘Decade of Disunion’ – 11 February 2026
The Outstater – 9 February 2026
The Outstater – 7 February 2026
The Outstater – 4 February 2026
Keating: Drama at the Federal Reserve – 2 February 2026
The Outstater – 30 January 2026
Franke: Avoiding Another ‘Oil War’ – 29 January 2026
McGowan: Marx and the Mayor – 27 January 2026
The Outstater – 26 January 2026
The Outstater – 23 January 2026
The Outstater – 16 January 2026
The Outstater – 13 January 2026
Franke: Book ReviewEdmund Burke – 12 January 2026
The Outstater – 8 January 2026
The Outstater – 5 January 2026
The Outstater – 2 January 2026
The Outstater – 31 December 2025
The Outstater – 29 December 2025
Franke: 2026 — a ‘Declaration’ Year – 29 December 2025
The Outstater – 26 December 2025
Schansberg: Tariffs on Santa Claus? – 19 December 2025
Franke: Farm Subsidies — A Better Way – 17 December 2025
Franke: Reapportionment – 15 December 2025
O’Donnell: Yes, Socialism Works . . . – 15 December 2025
The Outstater – 14 December 2025
Franke: ‘Listening to the Law’ – 8 December 2025
The Outstater – 6 December 2025
The Outstater – 2 December 2025
Schansberg: ‘Greatness’ — a Biblical Perspective – 1 December 2025
The Outstater – 29 November 2025
The Outstater – 26 November 2025
The Outstater – 25 November 2025
The Outstater – 21 November 2025
The Outstater – 20 November 2025
McGowan: Other Pitchers Who Could Hit – 18 November 2025
The Outstater – 17 November 2025
Franke: The Thankful Month – 17 November 2025
The Outstater – 15 November 2025
The Outstater – 14 November 2025
Clark: Are you a ‘Christian Nationalist’? – 13 November 2025
The Outstater – 11 November 2025
Franke: Supreme Court Independence – 10 November 2025
The Outstater – 8 November 2025
The Outstater – 6 November 2025
McGowan: AI Flunks the Baseball Test – 4 November 2025
The Outstater – 3 November 2025
Franke: Civic Bargain Book Review – 3 November 2025
Snow: Legislative Failure – 31 October 2025
The Outstater – 30 October 2025
The Outstater – 28 October 2025
Chandrakumara: Data Centers – 28 October 2025
Franke: The Role of Citizenship – 27 October 2025
McGowan: Not the ‘Greatest’ Game – 24 October 2025
Franke: The Huge Dictionary in the Corner – 23 October 2025
The Outstater – 22 October 2025
The Outstater – 20 October 2025
The Outstater – 20 October 2025
The Outstater – 16 October 2025
The Outstater – 13 October 2025
The Outstater – 7 October 2025
Arp: The IEDC Chickens Have Roosted – 7 October 2025
White Paper: Data Centers – 6 October 2025
Franke: The Saudi Transformation – 6 October 2025
The Outstater – 3 October 2025
McGowan: Fatherhood — Tussling With the WSJ – 29 September 2025
The Outstater – 26 September 2025
Franke: The ‘Rechurching’ of America – 22 September 2025
Schansberg: Gerrymandering – 19 September 2025
The Outstater – 17 September 2025
The Outstater – 15 September 2025
Franke: and Government Power – 15 September 2025
McGowan: The Advantage of Biological Parents – 11 September 2025
Wong: The Abuse of Intercity Bus Subsidies – 9 September 2025
The Outstater – 6 September 2025
The Outstater – 29 August 2025
The Outstater – 28 August 2025
The Outstater – 22 August 2025
Snow: An Avian Parable on Polarization – 20 August 2025
The Outstater – 18 August 2025
WHITE PAPER: Financing Hoosier Healthcare – 17 August 2025
Snow: Gerrymandering Is a Distraction – 12 August 2025
The Outstater – 10 August 2025
The Outstater – 8 August 2025
The Outstater – 7 August 2025
The Outstater – 5 August 2025
Franke: The Dog Days of Baseball – 4 August 2025
Watts: ‘Tucker: A Man and His Dream’ – 3 August 2025
The Outstater – 2 August 2025
McGowan: Social Justice – 30 July 2025
Franke: Family Farms or Agribusiness? – 30 July 2025
Outstater – 29 July 2025
Franke: Hagiography or Iconoclasm? – 22 July 2025
The Outstater – 15 July 2025
The Outstater – 11 July 2025
Franke: Population Worries – 6 July 2025
The Outstater – 3 July 2025
The Outstater – 30 June 2025
Franke: America and Dante’s Inferno – 27 June 2025
The Outstater – 25 June 2025
The Outstater – 15 June 2025
The Outstater – 15 June 2025
The Outstater – 9 June 2025
The Outstater – 6 June 2025
Franke: Those Pesky Tariffs – 5 June 2025
The Outstater – 3 June 2025
McGowan: A New Pope – 29 May 2025
Gough: A Cover-Up of a Cover-Up – 27 May 2025
The Outstater – 27 May 2025
The Outstater – 23 May 2025
Franke: Pete Rose – 21 May 2025
The Outstater – 20 May 2025
The Outstater – 16 May 2025
The Outstater – 15 May 2025
The Outstater – 13 May 2025
The Outstater – 9 May 2025
The Outstater – 7 May 2025
The Outstater – 1 May 2025
The Outstater – 29 April 2025
McGowan: Intuition on College Legacies – 28 April 2025
The Outstater: Toward a Better Political Climate – 25 April 2025
Snow: Immigration and Unintended Consequences – 25 April 2025
The Outstater – 23 April 2025
Heath: Nationwide Injunctions – 22 April 2025
Franke: Nationwide Injunctions – 21 April 2025
Mcgowan: Kix Cereal and a Changed Culture – 8 April 2025
Franke: Baseball Is Back – 7 April 2025
The Outstater – 4 April 2025
The Outstater – 31 March 2025
Franke: Birth Citizenship – 28 March 2025
The Outstater – 24 March 2025
The Outstater – 21 March 2025
Keating: Freedom to Work – 18 March 2025
Franke: The Aging of America – 17 March 2025
The Outstater – 13 March 2025
Op-Ed: The Threats to Democracy – 13 March 2025
The Outstater – 11 March 2025
Schansberg: Trump and Cleveland – 10 March 2025
The Outstater – 6 March 2025
Timmons: Shame on the Legislature – 5 March 2025
McGowan: Modified Men Versus Natural Women – 4 March 2025
Franke: Property-Tax Misery – 3 March 2025
Franke: A Modest Proposal to Save America – 27 February 2025
Wong: Rethinking Amtrak Subsidies – 26 February 2025
The Outstater – 24 February 2025
Snow: A Splendid Little ‘Blackout’ – 21 February 2025
Franke: Signs of an Early Spring? – 17 February 2025
The Outstater – 9 February 2025
The Outstater – 7 February 2025
Snow: Social Media and Coming of Age – 7 February 2025
Moss: Israel Is Being Betrayed – 5 February 2025
The Outstater – 5 February 2025
McGowan: Rethinking ‘Diversity’ – 3 February 2025
The Outstater – 1 February 2025
Franke: Cultural Change and the Decline of the Family – 30 January 2025
The Outstater – 23 January 2025
Gaski: Daylight Saving Time Redux – 22 January 2025
Franke: Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump – 20 January 2025
Keating: The LA Wildfires – 14 January 2025
Franke: Time for Some Presidential Focus – 13 January 2025
McGowan: Reasoning Seems so Obsolete – 10 January 2025
The Outstater – 5 January 2025
McGowan: Thomistic Thoughts at Christmas – 28 December 2024
Franke: New Year’s Resolutions for the Nation – 27 December 2024
The Outstater – 20 December 2024
The Outstater – 14 December 2024
Franke: Reflections on the Election – 12 December 2024
The Outstater – 9 December 2024
The Outstater – 4 December 2024
Franke: An Evening with a Congressman – 4 December 2024
Bouchie: The Biden Family Pardon – 3 December 2024
The Outstater – 19 November 2024
Schansberg: Let’s Limit Early Voting – 18 November 2024
The Outstater – 16 November 2024
The Outstater – 14 November 2024
Franke: Reflections on Voting – 14 November 2024
Goeglein: Stumbling Toward Utopia – 13 November 2024
Schansberg: Calming Thoughts on the Election – 11 November 2024
The Outstater – 7 November 2024
The Outstater – 4 November 2024
Rasmusen: Why Do 55% Think 2020 Election Was Stolen? – 1 November 2024
The Outstater – 31 October 2024
Franke: Elections, Voting, Ballots . . . – 30 October 2024
The Outstater – 28 October 2024
Cummins: Teacher Pay — ‘Guesswork with Footnotes’ – 26 October 2024
Gaski: The American Bolshevik Takeover – 26 October 2024
The Outstater – 25 October 2024
McGowan: A Short While Ago . . . – 24 October 2024
The Outstater – 18 October 2024
Franke: Dems, GOP — the Differences – 16 October 2024
The Outstater – 15 October 2024
Teshka: Demystifying School Funding – 14 October 2024
McGowan: Guns — Where Are the Parents? – 14 October 2024
O’Donnell: In the Middle East There Are No Rules – 13 October 2024
Franke: Even Children Are Polarized – 10 October 2024
The Outstater – 8 October 2024
O’Donnell: America’s Flirtation with National Suicide – 7 October 2024
The Outstater – 4 October 2024
The Outstater – 1 October 2024
Franke: Silence Is Golden — and Rare – 1 October 2024
Ganahl: Alternative Media – 27 September 2024
Keating: Adam Smith on National Defense – 25 September 2024
The Outstater – 24 September 2024
McGowan: Hate Crimes — What’s Changed – 23 September 2024
The Outstater – 19 September 2024
Franke: Abe and Defending the Constitution – 16 September 2024
The Outstater – 13 September 2024
The Outstater – 9 September 2024
The Outstater – 6 September 2024
Franke: Is China a Threat? – 2 September 2024
The Outstater – 30 August 2024
The Outstater – 22 August 2024
Franke: Taking a Called Third Strike – 20 August 2024
The Outstater – 19 August 2024
The Outstater – 15 August 2024
The Outstater – 9 August 2024
Franke: Witnessing Democracy at Work – 5 August 2024
The Outstater – 1 August 2024
Cummins: More Eco-Devo, a Citizen’s Lament – 31 July 2024
Franke: Disarming Rhetorical Violence – 30 July 2024
McGowan: Crime — Inequities? What Inequities – 29 July 2024
The Outstater – 26 July 2024
The Outstater – 25 July 2024
Neal: Keep Your Eye on Founding Principles – 20 July 2024
Franke: The Real Threat to Democracy – 18 July 2024
Franke: Reaganism Without Reagan – 12 July 2024
The Outstater – 10 July 2024
Snow: ‘Money and the Rule of Law’ – 8 July 2024
The Outstater – 5 July 2024
The Outstater – 1 July 2024
The Outstater – 24 June 2024
Franke: The Violently Selfish Campus – 24 June 2024
The Outstater – 19 June 2024
The Outstater – 12 June 2024
Gaski: Islamophobia or Propaganda? – 12 June 2024
The Outstater – 8 June 2024
Keating: ChatGPT’s Advice on Careers – 6 June 2024
Heath: Trump’s Verdict and Jury Reform – 4 June 2024
Franke: The Mathematics of Voting – 3 June 2024
Franke: The Draw of Small Towns – 29 May 2024
Keating: Concerning the United States’ Protectionist Tilt – 28 May 2024
The Outstater – 26 May 2024
The Outstater – 22 May 2024
The Outstater – 17 May 2024
Moss: ‘Diversity’ or Merit? – 15 May 2024
The Outstater – 13 May 2024
The Outstater – 10 May 2024
Franke: Well, I voted on Tuesday – 8 May 2024
The Outstater – 6 May 2024
The Outstater – 3 May 2024
Franke: The Nostalgia of Consolidated High Schools – 1 May 2024
The Outstater – 30 April 2024
The Outstater – 25 April 2024
Franke: Plato’s Philosopher Kings – 24 April 2024
McGowan: Fact-Checking the Governor’s ‘Trans’ Policy – 23 April 2024
The Outstater – 16 April 2024
Schansberg: Let’s Index Indiana Income Tax – 12 April 2024
McGowan: Slavery in Historical Perspective – 10 April 2024
The Outstater – 7 April 2024
Franke: Baseball and Golf Mean It’s Spring – 4 April 2024
The Outstater – 3 April 2024
McGowan: Men and the Socratic ho ti esti Question – 3 April 2024
The Outstater – 1 April 2024
The Outstater – 29 March 2024
The Outstater – 27 March 2024
The Outstater – 24 March 2024
The Outstater – 14 March 2024
Franke: Trump as Andrew Jackson – 12 March 2024
The Outstater – 7 March 2024
Indiana Mandate: A Return to Founding Principles – 5 March 2024
Franke: The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence – 4 March 2024
The Outstater – 4 March 2024
The Outstater – 1 March 2024
The Outstater – 23 February 2024
O’Donnell: Jesus — Socialist? Capitalist? It’s Complicated – 22 February 2024
Franke: 1776 — A Failed Experiment? – 21 February 2024
Seminars – 18 February 2024
‘Indiana Mandate’ Is Now on Sale – 16 February 2024
Gaski: The Dems and Their Biden (and Harris) Problem – 15 February 2024
Franke: The Sovereignty of Conscience – 12 February 2024
The Outstater – 9 February 2024
Keating: Do Great Masters Cheat When Using ChatGPT? – 9 February 2024
The Outstater – 5 February 2024
Franke: The Generational Divide – 1 February 2024
The Outstater – 31 January 2024
Gaski: The GOP and the Abortion Trap – 29 January 2024
The Outstater – 27 January 2024
McGowan: The Travail of a Letter-Writer – 24 January 2024
The Outstater – 19 January 2024
Franke: Compromise Is Hard – 16 January 2024
The Outstater – 14 January 2024
McGowan: Domestic Abuse Revisited – 10 January 2024
Franke: After Modernity, What? – 8 January 2024
The Outstater – 4 January 2024
Franke: Holiday Post Office Woes – 2 January 2024
Varvel: 2023 in Review – 1 January 2024
The Outstater – 27 December 2023
Franke: Here’s Some Hope for 2024 – 26 December 2023
Moss: DEI Comes to Jasper – 23 December 2023
Franke: Christ May Be Back into Christmas – 18 December 2023
The Outstater – 16 December 2023
The Outstater – 14 December 2023
Franke: The Lost Art of Conversation – 11 December 2023
Keating: The King’s Hawaiian Example – 11 December 2023
2. Ganahl: The Rules of Engagement – 6 December 2023
1. Ganahl: The Gantt Chart – 6 December 2023
The Outstater – 1 December 2023
Franke: Quizzing a Candidate – 1 December 2023
The Outstater – 28 November 2023
The Outstater – 23 November 2023
Franke: Manchin Is no ‘Moderate’ – 22 November 2023
The Outstater – 17 November 2023
McGowan: Is Disparity a Choice? – 16 November 2023
Keating: Social Security Has Promises to Keep – 13 November 2023
Franke: Consent of the Governed? – 10 November 2023
The Outstater – 9 November 2023
The Outstater – 30 October 2023
The Outstater – 26 October 2023
Franke: What’s U.S. Foreign Policy? – 24 October 2023
The Success of an ‘Annoying Child’ – 22 October 2023
The Outstater – 20 October 2023
McGowan: Terrorism, War and Diversity – 18 October 2023
The Outstater – 17 October 2023
Franke: They’ve Gone Too Far – 16 October 2023
Franke: Our ‘Leaders’ — Chosen but not Liked – 9 October 2023
The Outstater – 7 October 2023
Franke: Ubiquitous Road Hazards – 2 October 2023
The Outstater – 29 September 2023
The Outstater – 27 September 2023
The Outstater – 25 September 2023
The Outstater – 20 September 2023
Franke: The Trump Effect – 18 September 2023
Ganahl: Legislative Reform — A ‘Little Dab’ll Do Ya” – 15 September 2023
Backgrounder: The Downtown ‘Doom Loop’ – 8 September 2023
Gaski: January 6 and the Big Gaslight – 6 September 2023
The Outstater – 4 September 2023
Franke: Trump Cast as Shakespeare’s Richard III – 4 September 2023
Keating: A Plea for Law and Order – 31 August 2023
McGowan: Censorship – 29 August 2023
Franke: Immigration II – 28 August 2023
McGowan: A Word About the Homeless – 23 August 2023
Franke: Immigration I – 21 August 2023
The Outstater – 18 August 2023
Ganahl: In Politics, Losing Isn’t Winning – 16 August 2023
Indiana Social Capital Scores by County – 16 August 2023
Franke: Air Conditioning — The Cause of All Our Woes – 14 August 2023
Moss: A Word Against the New Sodom and Gomorrah – 10 August 2023
Schansberg: AI and the Demise of Higher Ed? – 9 August 2023
McGowan: Where Are the Platonists? – 7 August 2023
The Outstater – 31 July 2023
McGowan: The Data on Men’s Health – 31 July 2023
Ganahl: The ‘Bob Vila Effect’ — Why Nothing Gets Done – 27 July 2023
Schansberg: Coolidge — Overlooked but Above Average – 26 July 2023
The Outstater – 25 July 2023
Franke: Dumbing Down by Knowing Too Much – 24 July 2023
McGowan: One-Way Environmentalists – 21 July 2023
Bouchie: Court Dissent Based on Factual Error – 19 July 2023
Franke: Summer Vacations for the ‘Retired’ – 17 July 2023
McGowan: Ignoring Crime Patterns – 12 July 2023
Franke: Major League Baseball, If You Can Afford It – 10 July 2023
Leo Morris: Rest in Peace – 7 July 2023
Franke: July 4 — Freedom Is a Risky Business – 3 July 2023
The Outstater – 3 July 2023
Moss: The Jasper Wildcats — A Way Forward – 30 June 2023
The Outstater – 29 June 2023
McGowan: A Last Word on Fathers Day – 28 June 2023
Franke: Gender — the Triumph of Error – 26 June 2023
The Outstater – 25 June 2023
The Outstater – 21 June 2023
We Need Your Help – 20 June 2023
Does Anyone Care about Justice Anymore? – 19 June 2023
Don’t Miss Your Summer Journal – 12 June 2023
McGowan: Gender Identity Tattletales? – 12 June 2023
The Outstater – 9 June 2023
Franke: ‘Tis the Season of Patriotism — and Liberty – 7 June 2023
Morris: A Journalist Discovers Politics – 5 June 2023
Registration Open for 2023 Seminar – 31 May 2023
Franke: Essential Characteristics of Public Leaders – 30 May 2023
Morris: Property — Imagine It Anew – 29 May 2023
Franke: The Black Hole of Genealogy – 24 May 2023
Morris: Now It’s Un-Memorial Day – 22 May 2023
McGowan: The Sexes — Follow the Science – 19 May 2023
Franke: Are We Living in ‘1984’ or ‘Dune’? – 19 May 2023
The Outstater – 16 May 2023
Moss: Racism? A Tale of Four Crimes – 16 May 2023
Morris: The Governor Gets a Raise – 15 May 2023
Franke: The Constitution’s ‘Selective Incorporation’ – 10 May 2023
Morris: Citizen 0; Chicken Police 1 – 8 May 2023
The Outstater – 8 May 2023
The Outstater – 5 May 2023
The Outstater – 2 May 2023
Morris: Politics, Slow and Steady Does It – 1 May 2023
The Outstater – 27 April 2023
The Outstater – 24 April 2023
Morris: When Will the State Quit Taxing? – 24 April 2023
The Outstater – 20 April 2023
Franke: The Risk Inherent in a Convention of States – 19 April 2023
The Outstater – 18 April 2023
Morris: A Quaint Expression Rings True – 17 April 2023
Franke: The Attack on Marriage Is an Attack on Society – 12 April 2023
Timmons: Artificial Intelligence, an Interview with the Future – 11 April 2023
Franke: Baseball Cards — the Currency of Youth – 10 April 2023
Morris: Welcome to the Reality Gap – 10 April 2023
Indiana Assessors Defy the Tax Court – 7 April 2023
The Outstater – 5 April 2023
McGowan: Baseball —’Tis the Season – 4 April 2023
Morris: Here’s a Tip, Ask a Lot, Get a Lot – 3 April 2023
Timmons: Letter Jackets to Voting — How Low Can We Go? – 2 April 2023
Franke: The Salutary Effect of Religious Observance – 1 April 2023
Arp: Are They Lying to Us About a City’s Growth? – 31 March 2023
Three Questions for the American People – 29 March 2023
The Outstater – 28 March 2023
Franke: The Iconoclasm of the Internet – 28 March 2023
Morris: Our Broken Political System – 27 March 2023
Eichenberger: Will We Let Science and Logic Die? – 24 March 2023
McGowan: The Gap in the Equal Pay ‘Gap’ – 24 March 2023
The Outstater – 23 March 2023
Franke: The Two-Party Problem – 22 March 2023
The Outstater – 21 March 2023
Morris: A Prize for ‘Thieves’ at the Indiana BMV – 20 March 2023
Bouchie: An Indiana Case Defined What Is a ‘Right’ – 17 March 2023
The Outstater – 17 March 2023
Franke: DST: Dumb and Double-Dumb – 15 March 2023
Morris: Be Careful What You Consider Your ‘Right’ – 13 March 2023
Moss: Barack Obama and the Racial Divide – 12 March 2023
Franke: The Essentiality of the Constitution – 8 March 2023
Keating: The Lost Trust in Social Security – 7 March 2023
Morris: No Right Turn on Red — Maybe – 6 March 2023
Franke: Redeveloping our Socratic Skills – 1 March 2023
The Outstater – 28 February 2023
Moss: Winter, Desolation and Faith – 27 February 2023
Morris: Deference, Sir, Is no Crime – 27 February 2023
The Outstater – 25 February 2023
Franke: a DAR Induction – 22 February 2023
Morris: Reversing ‘1984’ – 20 February 2023
Franke: Future of the 2-Party System Is in Question – 15 February 2023
Morris: Sniffing Out the State Smell – 13 February 2023
Franke: ‘Natural Rights’ Founded on a ‘Natural Law’ – 8 February 2023
The Outstater – 6 February 2023
Morris: Good Advice from Mitch Daniels – 6 February 2023
The Outstater – 2 February 2023
McGowan: ‘Go Red’ for Heart Health (Women and Men) – 31 January 2023
Cummins: Free the Teachers! – 30 January 2023
Morris: The ‘Packsaddle Librarians’ – 30 January 2023
Timmons: The Debt Number Won’t Fit in This Headline – 28 January 2023
The Outstater – 28 January 2023
The McGowans: IU and “the Magna Charta Universitatum” – 27 January 2023
The Outstater – 25 January 2023
Franke: The Travails of Local Government – 25 January 2023
Morris: Maybe Spending Has Something to Do With It – 23 January 2023
The Outstater – 18 January 2023
Franke: Due Process for the Indiana National Guard – 18 January 2023
The Outstater – 16 January 2023
Morris: Let the Hoosier Mystique Be – 16 January 2023
Franke: Is This the Government We Deserve? – 11 January 2023
McGowan: The Poster Children for Capitalism – 10 January 2023
The Outstater – 9 January 2023
Morris: My Guide to the Legislature – 9 January 2023
The Outstater – 5 January 2023
Franke: There Still Can Be Hope – 4 January 2023
The Outstater – 31 December 2022
McGowan: John Locke Wishes You a Happy New Year – 30 December 2022
Arp: A Council in Economic Oblivion – 28 December 2022
Franke: My New Year’s Resolution – 28 December 2022
Morris: Bless the Storm’s First Responders – 26 December 2022
Schansberg: Education Analogies to Real Life – 24 December 2022
Backgrounder: ‘Archaic’ Teaching Is Sorely Missed – 23 December 2022
Franke: A Contemporary Christmas Carol – 21 December 2022
Morris: Regardless, Merry Christmas – 19 December 2022
The Outstater – 18 December 2022
The Outstater – 16 December 2022
Franke: Prudence: Now More Than Ever – 16 December 2022
Schansberg: We All Stereotype – 15 December 2022
Franke: What Does ‘Conservative’ Mean? – 14 December 2022
Morris: The Bulls in the China Shop – 12 December 2022
The Outstater – 6 December 2022
Morris: Watch Out, They’re Rethinking School – 5 December 2022
The Outstater – 29 November 2022
The Outstater – 28 November 2022
Morris: Politics and the Mongolian Sheep – 28 November 2022
Franke: Student Loan Redux – 23 November 2022
Franke: Let’s Give Thanks, Not Covet or Scoff – 21 November 2022
Morris: FTX and our Pretend Money – 21 November 2022
The Outstater – 16 November 2022
The Outstater – 15 November 2022
Morris: Principles Are Why We Vote – 14 November 2022
The 2023 ‘Foothold’ Councilmen – 13 November 2022
The Outstater – 10 November 2022
Morris: Change: (It’s) a Mixed Bag – 7 November 2022
The Outstater – 5 November 2022
Franke: The Continuing Service of Veterans – 4 November 2022
The Outstater – 2 November 2022
Morris: Downtown — A City’s Quandary – 31 October 2022
The Outstater – 27 October 2022
Franke: The Importance of Faith-Based Hospitals – 26 October 2022
Morris: Déjà Vu or a Full Brain? – 24 October 2022
Franke: The Politics of Epithets, Name-Calling – 19 October 2022
The Outstater – 18 October 2022
Morris: Yes, Politics Is a Joke – 17 October 2022
The Outstater – 14 October 2022
McGowan: ESG Investing, Virtue and Policy – 14 October 2022
Franke: The Blame Game as National Pastime – 12 October 2022
The Outstater – 11 October 2022
Morris: Thoughts on a Mayor’s DWI Arrest – 9 October 2022
Franke: I Wish I Had Said That . . . – 5 October 2022
Morris: Gambling Is a Fickle Game – 3 October 2022
The Outstater – 30 September 2022
The Outstater – 28 September 2022
Franke: Americans Are Foreign-Language Illiterates – 28 September 2022
Morris: Indiana, the Home of Good, Eclectic Music – 26 September 2022
Backgrounder: The Bread-and-Circus Returns – 25 September 2022
The Outstater – 23 September 2022
Franke: A 12-Year-Old Tackles Inflation – 22 September 2022
The Outstater – 19 September 2022
Morris: At IU, It’s Benton ‘No,’ Kinsey ‘Yes’ – 19 September 2022
A Directory of Effective Councilmen – 16 September 2022
Franke: The Treasure of Our Constitution – 14 September 2022
Morris: The Military Trust Gap – 12 September 2022
The Outstater – 11 September 2022
The Outstater – 9 September 2022
Backgrounder: The Constitution and Abortion – 8 September 2022
Franke: The Virtue of Pestering – 7 September 2022
The Outstater – 6 September 2022
Morris: The Lesson of the Bowser Pump – 5 September 2022
Keating: Adam Smith and the Public Debt – 5 September 2022
The Outstater – 2 September 2022
McGowan: Like It or Not, Savages Are Savage – 31 August 2022
The Outstater – 29 August 2022
Morris: College Debt, Exacerbated – 29 August 2022
Franke: The Student Loan Bailout – 27 August 2022
The Fall Journal Is on Its Way – 26 August 2022
Franke: The Warts of Democracy – 24 August 2022
Zoom Meeting – 23 August 2022
The Outstater – 22 August 2022
Morris: Tracking ‘the Big Lie’ – 22 August 2022
The Outstater – 19 August 2022
Schansberg: Be Careful Assessing Abortion Law – 18 August 2022
Franke: The Government We Deserve – 17 August 2022
The Outstater – 16 August 2022
Morris: The Cool Kids’ Table — Updated – 15 August 2022
Christmas Seminar – 12 August 2022
Protecting Us From Our Own Government – 11 August 2022
Franke: What Happened to Summer Vacation? – 10 August 2022
Arp: ‘Affordable’ Housing Won’t Come From D.C. – 9 August 2022
The Outstater – 8 August 2022
Morris: Abortion, Going Forward – 8 August 2022
The Outstater – 5 August 2022
Franke: Children Still Do Read Real Books – 3 August 2022
Morris: America, What Will it Be? – 1 August 2022
More on Saving ‘the News’ – 28 July 2022
Solzhenitsyn in Appenzell – 27 July 2022
Franke: NIMBY Is Alive and Well – 27 July 2022
Moss: the ‘Obergefell’ Decision – 26 July 2022
Morris: Government Transportation – 25 July 2022
On Saving ‘the News’ – 21 July 2022
Franke: The Idylls of Suburban Life – 20 July 2022
Morris: A Not-So-Special Session – 18 July 2022
Franke: Virtue’s Disappearance in our Public Character – 13 July 2022
The Outstater – 12 July 2022
Morris: The Court and Balance – 11 July 2022
The Outstater – 9 July 2022
Franke: Detours Around the Education Train Wreck – 6 July 2022
Morris: The Last of the ‘Keepers’ – 4 July 2022
The Outstater – 1 July 2022
Franke: The Crack in our Liberty Bell – 30 June 2022
Morris: The Legislative Remedy – 27 June 2022
The Outstater – 26 June 2022
The Outstater – 23 June 2022
Franke: Jimmy Carter Days Are Here Again – 22 June 2022
Schansberg: A Disastrous, Immoral U.S. Debt – 21 June 2022
McGowan: Roe vs. Wade and ‘Moral Standing’ – 20 June 2022
Morris: ‘. . . But Not You, Leo’ – 20 June 2022
The Outstater – 18 June 2022
The Outstater – 13 June 2022
Morris – 13 June 2022
The Outstater – 9 June 2022
A Check on the Ruling Political Class – 8 June 2022
The Outstater – 6 June 2022
Morris: On the Job versus Diploma – 6 June 2022
The Summer Journal Is on its Way – 1 June 2022
The Outstater – 1 June 2022
Franke: To See the Future, Look to the Past – 1 June 2022
Morris: Sensationalizing Tragedy – 30 May 2022
The Outstater – 25 May 2022
Schansberg: Lessons from My Congressional Campaign – 24 May 2022
Morris: Who Is Replacing What? – 23 May 2022
Moss: The Glory of Small Towns and Marching Bands – 20 May 2022
Franke: Yogi Berra Would Have Something to Say – 18 May 2022
The Outstater – 17 May 2022
Morris: The Sport of Kings, et al. – 16 May 2022
Half Past the Month – 13 May 2022
The Outstater – 11 May 2022
Franke: Does the Constitution Have a Loophole? – 11 May 2022
McGowan: Is a Pregnant Woman a ‘Mom’? – 10 May 2022
Morris: A Very Human High Court – 9 May 2022
The Outstater – 5 May 2022
Franke: In Defense of a Truly General Education – 4 May 2022
Arp: Punishing the Recalcitrant – 4 May 2022
The Outstater – 2 May 2022
Morris: ‘Forgiving’ Student Loans – 2 May 2022
The Outstater – 29 April 2022
The Outstater – 25 April 2022
Morris – 25 April 2022
Moss – 21 April 2022
The Outstater – 20 April 2022
Franke – 20 April 2022
Morris – 18 April 2022
The Outstater – 16 April 2022
Op-Ed: ‘With Malice Toward None . . . – 13 April 2022
McGowan – 12 April 2022
Half Past the Month – 11 April 2022
Morris – 11 April 2022
Franke – 10 April 2022
McGowan – 6 April 2022
The Outstater – 4 April 2022
Morris – 4 April 2022
The Outstater – 1 April 2022
White Paper: Critical Race Theory 102 – 31 March 2022
White Paper: A Survey of Indiana’s K-12 Education: Changing Patterns – 31 March 2022
The Outstater – 29 March 2022
Morris – 28 March 2022
The Outstater – 25 March 2022
Franke: It’s Primary Season Again – 23 March 2022
Morris: World War III, Yes or No? – 21 March 2022
A Primer for Primary Challengers – 20 March 2022
The Outstater – 20 March 2022
McGowan: A Half Century of Title IX – 15 March 2022
Morris: DST? You Can Thank Mitch Daniels – 14 March 2022
Half Past the Month – 13 March 2022
Franke: ‘The Big Sort’ – 9 March 2022
Registration Is Open for Spring Journal – 8 March 2022
Morris: A Truth-in-Legislation Act – 7 March 2022
Schansberg: Five and Dime and Dollar and More – 4 March 2022
The Outstater – 3 March 2022
The Outstater – 1 March 2022
Morris: Who Owns the History? – 28 February 2022
The Outstater – 24 February 2022
Franke: Christian Persecution Hits Home – 23 February 2022
Morris: The ‘Quilhot Bid’ – 21 February 2022
Half Past the Month – 18 February 2022
Franke: A Love of Poetry (Provided It Rhymes) – 16 February 2022
IPR News: Glynn Files in the 32nd – 15 February 2022
Morris: Zero Tolerance for the Word Police – 14 February 2022
IPR News: Schansberg Files in the 9th – 12 February 2022
Franke: Whither Now the GOP? – 9 February 2022
The Outstater – 8 February 2022
IPR NEWS: Scoring the Indiana Legislature – 7 February 2022
Morris: A Generation Bereft of ‘Snow Days’ – 7 February 2022
McGowan: Wait, Here’s More SAT ‘Bias’ – 4 February 2022
The Outstater – 2 February 2022
Franke: The Political Changes of a Lifetime – 2 February 2022
McGowan: SAT Bias? It’s a Good Thing – 1 February 2022
Heller: Filling a Tax Piggy Bank – 31 January 2022
Morris: Picking a Court Nominee – 31 January 2022
The Outstater – 28 January 2022
Franke: So much for ‘Biden the Unifier’ – 26 January 2022
The Outstater – 24 January 2022
Morris: The Law and its Trade-offs – 24 January 2022
Arp: Let’s Salvage Competition – 21 January 2022
Franke: The Good Things That Unite Us (mostly) – 19 January 2022
Half Past the Month – 17 January 2022
Morris: Covid and the Djokovician Line – 17 January 2022
Gaski: The Fili-busted Race Card – 14 January 2022
McGowan: A Gender Imbalance on Campus – 12 January 2022
Franke: Now They Are Coming for Our Beer – 12 January 2022
Morris: Short Session Agnosia – 10 January 2022
The Outstater – 8 January 2022
Abbott: Critical Race Theory 101 – 7 January 2022
The Outstater – 4 January 2022
Morris: Partisanship and Education – 3 January 2022
Franke: A Simple Resolution – 29 December 2021
Morris: Paring to the Basics in 2022 – 27 December 2021
The Outstater – 26 December 2021
McGowan: A Christmas Greeting from Adam Smith – 22 December 2021
The Outstater – 20 December 2021
Morris: Welcome to the $1.25 Store – 20 December 2021
Franke: The Soaring Music of Christmas – 17 December 2021
Half Past the Month – 16 December 2021
Moss: Chanukah, Christmas and Western Civilization – 15 December 2021
Morris: Time Is Short for the Short Session – 13 December 2021
O’Toole: Trains that Nobody Needs – 9 December 2021
Franke: The ‘Public’ in Public Schools – 8 December 2021
Morris: You Are a Miracle – 6 December 2021
The Outstater – 2 December 2021
2022 Registration – 30 November 2021
Morris: ‘Leftover’ Memories – 29 November 2021
Franke: Thanks for the Irritants – 23 November 2021
Morris: The Rittenhouse Trial – 22 November 2021
Schansberg: K-12 Options – 20 November 2021
Franke – 17 November 2021
Moss – 16 November 2021
Half Past the Month – 15 November 2021
Morris – 15 November 2021
The Outstater – 12 November 2021
Half Past the Month – 10 November 2021
Franke – 8 November 2021
Morris – 8 November 2021
The Outstater – 2 November 2021
Morris – 1 November 2021
The Outstater – 29 October 2021
The Outstater – 27 October 2021
Franke – 27 October 2021
Morris – 25 October 2021
Leo Morris and the War of Ideas – 21 October 2021
McGowan – 21 October 2021
Franke – 20 October 2021
Keating – 19 October 2021
Morris – 18 October 2021
The Outstater – 15 October 2021
Half Past the Month – 14 October 2021
The Outstater – 13 October 2021
Morris – 13 October 2021
Franke – 13 October 2021
Franke – 6 October 2021
Morris (bonus column) – 5 October 2021
Morris – 3 October 2021
The Outstater – 30 September 2021
Franke – 29 September 2021
The Outstater – 27 September 2021
Morris: Our Crumbling Sense of Privacy – 27 September 2021
The Outstater – 23 September 2021
Morris: The Holcomb Way – 20 September 2021
The Outstater – 18 September 2021
McGowan: Muslims and 9-11 – 16 September 2021
Franke: Constitution Day – 15 September 2021
Half Past the Month – 14 September 2021
Morris: Air Travel – 13 September 2021
Menge: Holcomb Welcomes First of 5,000 Aghans – 9 September 2021
The Outstater – 8 September 2021
Morris: Natives and Newcomers – 6 September 2021
The Outstater – 2 September 2021
Kubul: Déjà Vu All Over Again? – 1 September 2021
Morris: Dress Code Says All Is Back to Normal – 30 August 2021
The Outstater – 26 August 2021
Franke: The Sad End of the Boy Scouts – 25 August 2021
McGowan: Diversity? Plato Has a Few Questions – 24 August 2021
Morris: Stepping Away From Nation-Building – 23 August 2021
The Outstater – 19 August 2021
Franke: Absolutes Define a Culture – 18 August 2021
Morris: The Flip Side of Civic Involvement – 16 August 2021
Half Past the Month – 12 August 2021
Morris: Diversity Jeopardy – 9 August 2021
The Outstater – 5 August 2021
Franke: The Supreme Court – 4 August 2021
McGowan: Diversity on Campus – 3 August 2021
Morris: Justice ‘by the Point’ – 2 August 2021
The Outstater – 29 July 2021
Franke: Combining Baseball and the Army – 28 July 2021
The Outstater – 27 July 2021
Morris: What Pence Was Asked to Do – 26 July 2021
The Outstater – 22 July 2021
Franke: A Non-Athletic Career – 21 July 2021
Morris: How to Spend my Tax Refund – 19 July 2021
Morris: A Gymnast Shows the Way – 12 July 2021
Half Past the Month – 8 July 2021
Franke: A Health Checkup for Patriotism – 7 July 2021
The Outstater – 6 July 2021
Franke: The Nexus of Libertarianism and Christianity – 4 July 2021
Morris: Crime — an Outrage or Mere Problem? – 28 June 2021
The Outstater – 25 June 2021
The Outstater – 24 June 2021
Franke: Old Schools – 23 June 2021
Franke: Father’s Day – 22 June 2021
Half Past the Month – 21 June 2021
Morris: The Zen of Civic Maintenance – 21 June 2021
Mercatus to Partner with the Foundation – 18 June 2021
The Outstater – 16 June 2021
Morris: News ‘Philanthropy’ – 14 June 2021
Keltner: Mandating the Vaccine – 12 June 2021
Schansberg: Government Grocery Stores – 11 June 2021
The Outstater – 10 June 2021
Franke: Flag Day – 9 June 2021
The Outstater – 7 June 2021
Morris: Where’s My Nude Gardening Check? – 7 June 2021
The Outstater – 5 June 2021
Franke: A Summer Vacations – 2 June 2021
The Outstater – 31 May 2021
Morris: Vietnam and the Rules of War – 31 May 2021
ALERT: Indiana AG Rules Against IU Vaccine Order – 26 May 2021
Franke: Our Post-Pandemic Selves – 26 May 2021
The Outstater – 25 May 2021
Morris: Fear Makes a Poor Motivator – 24 May 2021
ALERT: Candidate for IU Trustee Challenges Vaccine Order – 23 May 2021
Keltner: The Pandemic – 22 May 2021
Moss: Hamas Jihadists Can Count on U.S. Media – 17 May 2021
Morris: Are Mere Citizens Trustworthy? – 17 May 2021
Morris: A Neighborhood Political Count – 10 May 2021
Morris: Mothers Day – 3 May 2021
Franke: Biden’s 100 Days of Missed Opportunity – 30 April 2021
The Outstater – 27 April 2021
Morris: Numbers Are What You Make of Them – 26 April 2021
Menge: Vaccine Reports – 22 April 2021
Op-Ed: Vaccination Mandates – 21 April 2021
Franke: Not Your Grandfather’s GOP – 21 April 2021
Morris: The Doomsday Clock Has Stopped – 19 April 2021
The Outstater – 16 April 2021
Moss: The Last Bastion – 16 April 2021
Franke: The Masters Golf Tournament Prevails – 14 April 2021
Half Past the Month – 13 April 2021
Morris: Curbing Executive Power – 12 April 2021
Bad News About the Border – 9 April 2021
Half Past the Month – 8 April 2021
Keating: A Minimum Wage Closes Doors – 8 April 2021
Franke: Baseball Has Lost its Jingle – 7 April 2021
Schansberg: To Cancel or Not – 6 April 2021
Morris: Facebook ‘Friendship’ Is Qualified – 5 April 2021
The Outstater – 1 April 2021
Morris: Collecting Can Get Squirrelly – 29 March 2021
McGowan: Canceling Baseball’s Unwoke – 26 March 2021
The Outstater – 25 March 2021
Franke: The Importance of a Tradition – 24 March 2021
Morris: Police Reform – 22 March 2021
The Outstater – 18 March 2021
Franke: Whose Children Are They? – 17 March 2021
Morris: Confessions of a ‘Republican’ – 15 March 2021
Half Past the Month – 12 March 2021
Keating: The Political Parties – 12 March 2021
Franke: They’ve Come for Dr. Seuss – 10 March 2021
Morris: The Card Game Resumes – 8 March 2021
The Outstater – 5 March 2021
Franke: Spring and Baseball – 3 March 2021
Morris: Commonsensical Self-Defense – 1 March 2021
McGowan: U.S. Citizenship in a Bull Market – 26 February 2021
Keating: Coming Together on Government Debt – 26 February 2021
Please Register for the Spring Journal – 24 February 2021
Keating: Parenting Is Under Challenge – 23 February 2021
Morris: Winter Is a Matter of Perspective – 22 February 2021
Moss: The GOP Betrayal of the Middle Class – 18 February 2021
Franke: The Blessings of a Fixed Income – 17 February 2021
Schansberg: ‘Please Stop Helping Us’ – 16 February 2021
Morris: The Citizenship Question Expanded – 15 February 2021
The Outstater – 14 February 2021
Half Past the Month – 12 February 2021
McGowan: Woke Sports Names – 10 February 2021
Franke: A Non-Explosive Encounter with the Bomb Squad – 10 February 2021
Morris: Cabin Fever Redoubled – 8 February 2021
The Outstater – 5 February 2021
Arp: Is Citizenship Still Worth Something? – 4 February 2021
Franke: Loyally Opposing Biden – 3 February 2021
The Outstater – 1 February 2021
Morris: Sniffing Out Stupidity – 1 February 2021
News Alert: Aliens and Climate Change – 29 January 2021
The Outstater – 28 January 2021
Morris: The Bald Eagle – 25 January 2021
Half Past the Month – 18 January 2021
Morris: A Day of Reckoning – 18 January 2021
The Outstater – 13 January 2021
Morris: News Filters Aren’t New – 11 January 2021
The Outstater – 8 January 2021
Franke: A Postive Thought – 6 January 2021
Morris: A Template for Slimming Hoosier Government – 4 January 2021
Franke: A New but Old List of Resolutions – 30 December 2020
The Outstater – 28 December 2020
Morris: AD 2020 — the Long View – 28 December 2020
Franke: A Christmas Hope for All – 23 December 2020
Morris: Mother Teresa and Facing Doubt – 21 December 2020
The Scary Politics of COVID Vaccinations – 20 December 2020
The Outstater – 19 December 2020
Half Past the Month – 17 December 2020
Franke: A Light in the COVID Darkness – 16 December 2020
The ‘Good Guy’ List – 15 December 2020
Following Up: Students from China at IU – 13 December 2020
Moss: Chanukah, Christmas and Western Civilization – 10 December 2020
Franke: Making Sense of English – 9 December 2020
The Outstater – 8 December 2020
Keating: Putnam’s ‘Upswing’ – 8 December 2020
Morris: Our Last Redoubt – 7 December 2020
The Outstater – 3 December 2020
Franke: Old Enough to Vote? – 2 December 2020
Morris: The Hypocrisy Line – 30 November 2020
Menge: Hoosier Votes Canceled – 29 November 2020
The Outstater – 26 November 2020
Franke: We Can Be Thankful Even Now – 23 November 2020
Morris: Giving Thanks for our Choices – 23 November 2020
Half Past the Month – 19 November 2020
Franke: ‘Splitting’ Off – 18 November 2020
Menge: Who Owns Indiana’s Voting Machines? – 17 November 2020
Morris: It’s 2020 — What’s Next? – 16 November 2020
The Outstater – 10 November 2020
‘Jeopardy!’ Without Alex Trebek? – 9 November 2020
Morris: Big Government, Type 1 – 9 November 2020
Biden Has his ‘Mandate,’ We Have Ours – 7 November 2020
Sounding the Alarm – 6 November 2020
The Outstater – 3 November 2020
Morris: Rankings — Indiana Most Hated? – 2 November 2020
Paradise Lost: A History of the Next 200 Years – 30 October 2020
The Outstater – 29 October 2020
Franke: Democracy as a Chimera – 28 October 2020
Morris: Nov. 3 Scenarios – 26 October 2020
The Outstater – 23 October 2020
Franke: The Flag – 21 October 2020
Morris: Local Politics – 19 October 2020
Op-ed: Joe Biden and the Truth – 17 October 2020
Half Past the Month – 16 October 2020
Franke: The Libertarian Vote – 14 October 2020
Moss: A Personal Brush with the Cancel Culture – 13 October 2020
Morris: Indiana, Still the Mother of Vice Presidents? – 12 October 2020
Op-Ed: Locke’s Foundation Is at Risk this Election – 9 October 2020
Keating: First Comes School . . . – 6 October 2020
Morris: The Radio Show in my Mind – 5 October 2020
Backgrounder: Donald Rainwater, the Surprise Libertarian – 3 October 2020
Franke: Thoughts on How the Devout Might Vote – 30 September 2020
Morris: The Holcomb, Myers Malaise – 28 September 2020
Backgrounder: A Special Interest at Work – 25 September 2020
The Outstater – 23 September 2020
Franke: What Is Democracy Anyway? – 23 September 2020
Morris: Court ‘Diversity’ – 21 September 2020
The Outstater – 18 September 2020
Maybe Families Are What Matter – 14 September 2020
Morris: The Intangibility of the News – 14 September 2020
Election Talking Points for Conservative Teens – 11 September 2020
Op-Ed: A George Floyd Postmortem – 11 September 2020
White Paper: Trump’s Only Chance to Win – 10 September 2020
Franke: The Virtue of Moderation – 9 September 2020
Arp: Trump, Holcomb Step on Mom-and-Pop Property – 8 September 2020
Morris: Zoeller and GOP Duality – 7 September 2020
Franke: Ballot Harvesting – 2 September 2020
Morris: COVID and a Timid Future – 31 August 2020
Schansberg: The ‘Militarization of Mayberry’ – 28 August 2020
The Outstater: But Where Are the Republicans? – 27 August 2020
Franke: Conventional Thinking – 26 August 2020
Morris: Get Ready for Drive-in Mania – 24 August 2020
Franke: I’ve Had Enough Negativity – 21 August 2020
Backgrounder: They Love Gov. Holcomb at CNN – 20 August 2020
Morris: A Time to Wax Philosophic – 17 August 2020
Franke: It’s ‘Lower’ Education Now – 14 August 2020
Half Past the Month – 13 August 2020
McGowan: Black Lives Should Matter – 12 August 2020
Morris: Kindness Is Always an Option – 10 August 2020
Backgrounder: Civil War Battlefields – 8 August 2020
The Outstater – 6 August 2020
Franke: John Adams and the Rule of Law – 5 August 2020
Morris: From Podunk to Nimrod – 3 August 2020
Backgrounder: Welfare for the Rich – 31 July 2020
The Outstater – 31 July 2020
Holcomb’s ‘Special’ Laws – 30 July 2020
A Question for Nov. 3: Is it Fair to Soak the Poor? – 29 July 2020
Morris: Governing ‘Emergencies’ – 27 July 2020
Coming in the Fall Journal – 25 July 2020
Op-Ed: A Freshman Senator’s Leftward Lean – 24 July 2020
Talking Points for Teens Headed Back to School – 23 July 2020
Franke: Secession ‘Lite’ – 22 July 2020
Morris: Big Changes in Small Change – 21 July 2020
Schansberg: Statistical Discrimination – 17 July 2020
Half Past the Month – 15 July 2020
Morris: Indiana — What’s in a Name? – 13 July 2020
Asking ‘the China Question’ – 10 July 2020
It Begins: the Renaming of ‘Indiana’ – 9 July 2020
Franke: Do We Really Want to Be Like Seattle? – 8 July 2020
Horning: Where the Law Meets the Virus – 8 July 2020
Morris: Decency — a Word to Live By – 6 July 2020
Suit Against IU alleges Violation of Public Records Act – 4 July 2020
Menge v. Indiana University – 3 July 2020
The Outstater – 3 July 2020
News Advisory: China Has Plenty of Clout on IU Campus – 2 July 2020
WHITE PAPER: Students from China Bring Big Money and Clout to Indiana University – 1 July 2020
The Outstater – 29 June 2020
Morris: Bob’s ‘Big Boy’ – 29 June 2020
Schansberg: ‘Systemic’ Racism – 24 June 2020
The Outstater – 23 June 2020
Morris: The Police — Back to Sir Robert Pool – 22 June 2020
Abbott: COVID-19 and our Schools – 18 June 2020
Morris: From ‘Radical Chic’ to ‘Woke’ in 50 Years – 15 June 2020
Keating: An Alternative Path to a Good Income – 14 June 2020
Morris: Genealogy the Old-Fashioned Way – 8 June 2020
Mass Media, Black and White and Troubled All Over – 6 June 2020
Hydroxychloroquine and Me – 4 June 2020
The Outstater – 3 June 2020
Franke: The Soul of Civil Disobedience – 2 June 2020
Morris: Space, the Next Frontier Again – 1 June 2020
The Outstater – 29 May 2020
Keating: Penny-Pinching in a Crisis – 27 May 2020
Please Renew – 26 May 2020
Morris: The ‘Anvil Chorus’ – 25 May 2020
Schansberg: Degeneration of the News – 20 May 2020
Morris: Life with Pierre – 18 May 2020
Nixon’s Revenge: Modern Journalism – 15 May 2020
Moss: When Red State Governors Act Like Blue – 15 May 2020
Morris: Choose, While You Still Can – 11 May 2020
Half Past the Month – 9 May 2020
The Outstater – 7 May 2020
Special Report: DWD Call Centers – 7 May 2020
Moss: Rethinking the ‘Deplorables’ – 6 May 2020
Morris: Indiana’s Branding Problem – 4 May 2020
Schansberg: Hobbits, Wardrobes and Wars – 1 May 2020
The Outstater – 28 April 2020
Morris: My Local Newspaper, RIP – 27 April 2020
Menge: A Bailout that Doesn’t Bail Out – 24 April 2020
Schansberg: COVID-19 and the USPS – 23 April 2020
Bisson: The Myth of Universal Testing – 21 April 2020
Gaski: The Media’s Macabre Dance – 20 April 2020
Morris: COVID-19 Inanity – 20 April 2020
Questions About Holcomb Edicts – 16 April 2020
Moss: Armageddon for Red China – 16 April 2020
Franke: George Will and Conservative Sensibility – 15 April 2020
Half Past the Month – 13 April 2020
Pickerill: A Government in the Way – 10 April 2020
Schansberg: The ‘Progressives’ – 8 April 2020
Morris: Thoreau Quarantined – 6 April 2020
Van Cott: The Myth of Marketplace Chaos – 4 April 2020
Backgrounder: City Business as Usual? – 2 April 2020
Schansberg: The Co-Morbidity of Debt, ‘Stimulus’ – 1 April 2020
The Outstater: Saving ‘Journalism’ – 31 March 2020
Morris: Calamity and Lost Liberty – 30 March 2020
Van Cott: Inflationary Economics in the Black Death – 27 March 2020
A Bolt of Sanity Out of the Eco-Devo Blue – 26 March 2020
Schansberg: A COVID-19 Basic Income – 25 March 2020
Teevan: Phase II of the Coronavirus Struggle – 23 March 2020
Morris: Serenity in Times of Trouble – 23 March 2020
Bisson: The Coming ‘New Normal’ – 22 March 2020
Op-Ed: Holcomb to the Ramparts – 20 March 2020
The Outstater – 20 March 2020
Schansberg: Virus to Test Education’s Worth – 18 March 2020
Backgrounder: The Flu and City Finance – 16 March 2020
Morris: Stupidity Also Is Contagious – 16 March 2020
Keating: Populism, the Good and the Bad – 13 March 2020
Morris: ‘Indiana Beach,’ R.I.P. – 9 March 2020
Keating: Hoosiers Don’t Need 5G, or Do They? – 5 March 2020
Gaski: Romney as Hamlet – 4 March 2020
In the Spring Journal – 3 March 2020
Goodbye Buttigieg, Hello Milwaukee – 2 March 2020
A Better Primary System – 26 February 2020
Hillsdale Constitution Study in Fort Wayne – 25 February 2020
Morris: Indiana’s History with the Flu – 24 February 2020
Van Cott: Student Loans – 20 February 2020
Half Past the Month – 20 February 2020
Backgrounder: We’re Rebar Rich – 18 February 2020
Morris: The Insult of Not Being a So-and-So – 17 February 2020
Holcomb: Our Man in China – 15 February 2020
Morris: The ‘In-betweeners’ – 10 February 2020
The Outstater: True Crime – 6 February 2020
McGowan: Sexual Equality – 6 February 2020
The Outstater – 4 February 2020
Morris: A Life Well Done – 3 February 2020
Meet the Young Men Who Will Save America – 28 January 2020
Morris: Rights and Privileges – 27 January 2020
Keating: Cooperation – 24 January 2020
‘Music Man’ Economics – 22 January 2020
Morris: The Super Majority – 20 January 2020
Half Past the Month – 16 January 2020
Keating: Tariffs and Their Exemptions – 15 January 2020
Morris: Awash in Regulations – 13 January 2020
The Outstater: Buttigieg’s ‘Shortest Way Home’ – 10 January 2020
Morris: What’s Ahead in 2020 – 6 January 2020
Williams: Preserving the Indy 500 – 2 January 2020
Morris: A Routine, Helpful Police Encounter – 30 December 2019
Franke: Rating Socialists by their Beer – 27 December 2019
Neal: The Blue Indy Autopsy – 26 December 2019
Van Cott: Doing Good by Doing Well – 24 December 2019
Outstater: The Holcomb Model – 23 December 2019
Morris: Advice for a New Superintendent – 23 December 2019
Schansberg: The Grateful Santa – 17 December 2019
Half Past the Month – 15 December 2019
Help Us Get a ‘Foothold’ – 15 December 2019
Franke: Library Modernization – 12 December 2019
Half Past the Month – 10 December 2019
Franke: Not Your Grandfather’s Party – 10 December 2019
Morris: A Top-10 Hoax – 9 December 2019
An Unmentionable Election – 7 December 2019
The Outstater – 7 December 2019
Franke: A Beer Away from the NBA – 6 December 2019
Neal: Christian Persecution Increasing – 4 December 2019
Morris: The ‘Smartest’ State? – 2 December 2019
Gaski: A City Afraid of its Own Shadow – 27 November 2019
Shansberg: ‘Socialism’ – 26 November 2019
Morris: Texas Has it Right – 25 November 2019
‘It’s Time to Use our Outside Voices’ – 20 November 2019
Schansberg: The Warren Flip – 20 November 2019
Keating: Indiana Tax Rates – 19 November 2019
Morris: Waiting for the Pothole Rebellion – 18 November 2019
Backgrounder: The NYT and History – 13 November 2019
Retirement Musings, Part 2 – 11 November 2019
The Outstater – 6 November 2019
Morris: An Unconcerned Vacation – 4 November 2019
Gaski: The Ukraine Catch-22 – 30 October 2019
Welcome, Gary Varvel – 29 October 2019
Morris: Lefties Suffer the Military Salute – 28 October 2019
All Lives Matter, Mr. Kaepernick – 25 October 2019
Reparations: A Memorandum – 24 October 2019
Morris: An IU Mascot – 21 October 2019
The Lost Magic of Property – 17 October 2019
Morris: Municipal Voting – 14 October 2019
Morris: Elementary Love – 7 October 2019
Backgrounder: ‘News’ by Algorithm – 3 October 2019
Morris: Finally, Sophomoric Rule – 30 September 2019
Public Safety – 28 September 2019
Backgrounder: Religious Liberty – 25 September 2019
A Callow Strike for a ‘Perfect’ Climate – 23 September 2019
Morris: Paths of Least Resistance – 23 September 2019
Getting a Foothold – 22 September 2019
‘Unleash Leo’ 2020 – 20 September 2019
Morris: A Happy Birthday – 16 September 2019
Franke: Constitution Day – 13 September 2019
The Test: 32 Years of Fraud – 10 September 2019
Morris: The Andrew Luck Drama – 9 September 2019
The Outstater – 4 September 2019
Morris: Manufactured Crises – 2 September 2019
Morris: Squelching History – 26 August 2019
Franke: What’s Happened with the Police? – 21 August 2019
Keating: A New School Year – 21 August 2019
Morris: Gov. Holcomb and ‘Brand X’ – 19 August 2019
Indiana Policy Review Guilty of Scuttling Islandic Summit – 16 August 2019
The ‘Foothold Project’ – 15 August 2019
Keating: Indiana Corn, California Oranges – 14 August 2019
The Fall of the Star: Ownership Mattered – 13 August 2019
Morris: Multilingually Short – 12 August 2019
The Outstater – 9 August 2019
Schansberg: A Healthcare Odyssey – 7 August 2019
Morris: Mass Shootings – 5 August 2019
Sept. 12 Seminar: The Politics of Local Investment – 2 August 2019
Schansberg: Mamet’s ‘Secret Knowledge’ – 2 August 2019
McGowan: Women, Men, Soccer and Equality – 31 July 2019
The Outstater: Are We All Baltimoreans Now? – 30 July 2019
Morris: Rethinking the Moon Landing – 29 July 2019
The Outstater – 26 July 2019
Penticuff: One-Party Rule – 24 July 2019
Morris: The Census Quandary – 22 July 2019
The Outstater – 17 July 2019
Morris: Indiana Fuddy-Duddies – 15 July 2019
Schansberg: Shazam! – 12 July 2019
Half Past the Month – 10 July 2019
Morris: The SS Sultana – 8 July 2019
The Franke Bookshelf – 4 July 2019
The Outstater – 2 July 2019
Morris: Same-Sex Marriage – 1 July 2019
Schansberg: ‘The Professor and the Madman’ – 28 June 2019
Schansberg: ‘Winning’ a War – 27 June 2019
Backgrounder: Crime Stats – 25 June 2019
Morris: A Bureaucratic Diaspora – 24 June 2019
The Outstater – 22 June 2019
Penticuff: We’re Hurt by What We Don’t Know – 21 June 2019
Op-Ed: Crime? Don’t Trust Paul Helmke’s Analysis – 19 June 2019
Morris: The Era of the Ultracrepidarian – 17 June 2019
Half Past the Month – 12 June 2019
Morris: A TV Reporter Shows How It’s Done – 10 June 2019
Keating: The Bulls and the Bullied – 7 June 2019
The Outstater – 6 June 2019
Morris: The School Lunch – 3 June 2019
Morris: Official ‘Safety’ – 27 May 2019
Op-Ed: The ‘Magic’ of Buttigiegism – 26 May 2019
Op-ed: The Rule of Law – 26 May 2019
Van Cott: Why State Borders Are Important – 24 May 2019
Van Cott: ‘Starvation’ Wages – 20 May 2019
Morris: Pence at Taylor – 20 May 2019
Morris: Heavenly Indiana – 13 May 2019
Half Past the Month – 12 May 2019
Op-Ed: Magic Election Coverage – 9 May 2019
Franke: Cowardly Google – 8 May 2019
Schansberg: The ‘Meat Loaf’ Test – 8 May 2019
Morris: It’s Oprah – 6 May 2019
Schansberg: State Government Waste – 1 May 2019
Penticuff: Pence at Taylor University – 30 April 2019
The Outstater – 29 April 2019
Morris: the ‘Sweet Spot’ – 29 April 2019
Franke: The Ocasio-Cortez Constitution – 23 April 2019
Penticuff: Grant for Grads – 23 April 2019
Franke: It’s Spring and Baseball Is Back – 22 April 2019
Morris: The Pothole Challenge – 22 April 2019
Half Past the Month – 19 April 2019
Underestimating Cost of Shutting Coal Plants – 18 April 2019
Morris: Primary Elections – 15 April 2019
Schansberg: ‘Varsity Blue’ Scandal – 12 April 2019
McGowan: Socialism, Free Markets and Diversity – 10 April 2019
Progressive Insanity Across the State Line – 8 April 2019
Morris: Pence and Buttigieg – 8 April 2019
The Outstater: Social Capital – 4 April 2019
Van Cott: Economists and Tariffs – 2 April 2019
Franke: Socialism Still Doesn’t Work – 2 April 2019
Schansberg: Universal Basic Income – 1 April 2019
Morris: The Electoral College – 1 April 2019
Gaski: Buttigieg’s New Socialism – 29 March 2019
Sheriffs and the 2nd Amendment – 27 March 2019
Penticuff: A Tax Break for City Government? – 27 March 2019
Franke: Where’s All This Headed? – 26 March 2019
Schansberg: The Admissions Scandal – 26 March 2019
Morris: The Now Omniscient Phone – 25 March 2019
Van Cott: ‘Working’ Immigrants – 22 March 2019
Franke: Politically Incorrect Europe – 21 March 2019
Morris: On Not Hating Hate – 18 March 2019
Half Past the Month – 13 March 2019
Morris: One Toke Over the Line? – 11 March 2019
Van Cott: Trade Balancing – 7 March 2019
Morris: ‘Hate’ Crimes – 4 March 2019
Penticuff: TIF Seekers Are Getting Shameless – 1 March 2019
The Outstater – 27 February 2019
Morris: Apologies to Thomas Jefferson – 25 February 2019
The Outstater – 20 February 2019
Morris: ‘Popular Interest’ Libraries – 18 February 2019
Morris: Mayor Pete’s Beginning? – 11 February 2019
The Reality Check – 10 February 2019
Half Past the Month – 7 February 2019
Morris: Social Media Makes for Lousy Consensus – 4 February 2019
Eco-Devo: A Story of Diminished Expectations – 1 February 2019
Morris: Captain Holcomb Sets Sail – 28 January 2019
Backgrounder: Impeaching the Court – 24 January 2019
Backgrounder: Bye-Bye Robert Redford – 23 January 2019
Morris: Winter with Pierre and other Knuckleheads – 21 January 2019
Holcomb-0; Rent-Seekers-320 – 20 January 2019
Backgrounder: Soybeans and Washing Machines – 19 January 2019
Morris: Autopilot Spending – 14 January 2019
Franke: Will the ‘Poor’ Always Be with Us? – 11 January 2019
Half Past the Month – 8 January 2019
Backgrounder: My Years in Washington – 8 January 2019
Backgrounder: Gender and Wages – 7 January 2019
Morris: Counting our 2019 Blessings – 7 January 2019
Backgrounder: The Unspoken of Abatements – 2 January 2019
Morris: On Becoming Elderly — Suddenly – 31 December 2018
Outstater: Stay Strong, Scouts – 26 December 2018
Morris: Lawyers, How Low the Bar? – 24 December 2018
Yet Another Eco-Devo Scandal – 19 December 2018
The Outstater: Holcomb and Hate – 18 December 2018
Morris: Standing Up for the Corrupt – 17 December 2018
The Outstater: Eric the Flaccid – 13 December 2018
Keating: How to Become a Billionaire – 12 December 2018
Morris: Legislating Time – 10 December 2018
Half Past the Month: Info by Persona – 8 December 2018
Backgrounder: Closing Coal Plants Will Be Costly – 7 December 2018
Backgrounder: TIF Data Held Close to the Vest – 5 December 2018
Morris: A Government Upside Down – 3 December 2018
The Christmas Seminar Is this Saturday – 2 December 2018
Winter 2019 – 30 November 2018
Van Cott: My Prozac Economics Lecture – 30 November 2018
Cummins: ‘Economic Development’ Has Lost its Meaning – 29 November 2018
Morris: Well, Virginia, It’s Like This . . . – 26 November 2018
Van Cott: Genesis and Grain Speculation – 23 November 2018
White Paper: Paternalism and Protection, Women and Men – 21 November 2018
Register for 2019 Membership – 20 November 2018
Morris: Civil Reality Has Been Lost – 19 November 2018
Morris: Algorithm Hell – 12 November 2018
Schansberg: ‘The War to End All Wars’ – 8 November 2018
Half Past the Month: Let’s Try Supremacy – 7 November 2018
Franke: A Draft-Card Story – 5 November 2018
Morris: The GOP’s Moral Knot – 5 November 2018
Franke: The Balanced Budget Amendment – 29 October 2018
Morris: A History of Negative Campaigns – 29 October 2018
Van Cott: Lincoln’s Trade Epiphany – 24 October 2018
Morris: Political Parties – 22 October 2018
White Paper: Partisan Pathology in the U.S. – 17 October 2018
Morris: Media Leaves Us in the Dark – 15 October 2018
Franke: A Conservative Supreme Court? – 11 October 2018
Op-Ed: The ‘Surreal’ Mr. Brees – 10 October 2018
Morris: A Reunion Filled with Gratitude, Respect – 8 October 2018
Franke: County Fairs – 5 October 2018
Van Cott: Beware the Cost-of-Living Index – 3 October 2018
Morris: The Kavanaugh Treatment – 1 October 2018
The Outstater – 30 September 2018
Morris: We’re Getting Only Part of the Story – 24 September 2018
Mark Your Calendar – 19 September 2018
Huston: Analysis of the Kavanaugh Charges – 19 September 2018
Morris: A Hesitant Chamber’s ‘Neutrality’ – 17 September 2018
Franke: The Other Father of our Constitution – 13 September 2018
Franke: Immigrant Namesakes – 12 September 2018
Morris: Numbers Everyone Should Know – 10 September 2018
Franke: Bourbon and the Tax Man – 9 September 2018
The Outstater: Lawyers at War – 9 September 2018
The Outstater: The Real Job of Journalism – 9 September 2018
Morris: Stamping Out Road Rage – 9 September 2018
Morris: Legal Immigration Is Political Anathema – 27 August 2018
Check Out What’s Coming in the Fall Journal – 24 August 2018
Half Past the Month – 22 August 2018
Morris: Confessions of an Anti-Straw Man – 20 August 2018
Op-Ed: The Press as the ‘Enemy’ – 13 August 2018
Morris: Hate Crime – 13 August 2018
Neal: Making Sense of Mike Pence – 8 August 2018
Half Past the Month – 7 August 2018
Morris: Ernie Pyle and the History of War – 6 August 2018
Franke: What Happened to the American Dream? – 3 August 2018
Morris: An Ode to Wide Places in the Road – 30 July 2018
Welcome to Tammany Hall, Indiana – 26 July 2018
Op-Ed: Getting Rid of an Anti-Growth Property Tax – 24 July 2018
Morris: A Writer’s Discipline – 23 July 2018
The Outstater – 22 July 2018
Franke: Alexander Hamilton and the American Dream – 20 July 2018
McGowan: Into the Slag Heap of Affirmative Action – 18 July 2018
A Pageant of Newspaper Stunts – 16 July 2018
Half Past the Month – 13 July 2018
Franke: The Customer Is Always Right, but Which One? – 11 July 2018
Morris: Purple Now Marks Your Property – 9 July 2018
Gaski: South Bend’s ‘Worst City’ Status Explained – 6 July 2018
The Outstater – 4 July 2018
Morris: Sen. Kenley’s Pyrrhic Victory – 2 July 2018
McCarthy: Booster Alert, Indianapolis Business Journal – 26 June 2018
Morris: Democrats Weak on Gay Marriage Specifics – 25 June 2018
Franke: The Student Debt Crisis – 20 June 2018
Schansberg: Reckoning with Race – 19 June 2018
Morris: The Gambling Dilemma – 18 June 2018
Morris: A Botanical Horror Story – 11 June 2018
Keating: Expanding a Commonwealth? – 6 June 2018
Morris: Schools and Gastronomic Egalitariansm – 4 June 2018
Franke: Rent-Seeking or Just Honest Graft? – 30 May 2018
Backgrounder: Independent Schools, a Bare-Bones Option – 29 May 2018
Morris: Sen. Todd Young Fails ‘the Penny Test’ – 28 May 2018
Op-Ed: Paying People to Live Here – 25 May 2018
Van Cott: The Truly Amazing Free Market – 24 May 2018
Huston: The Scandal Watch – 21 May 2018
Morris: A Property Rights Saga – 21 May 2018
The Outstater: Journalism for Dummies – 18 May 2018
Schansberg: Thoughts on Immigration – 17 May 2018
Van Cott: Indiana Apples – 15 May 2018
Morris: Happiness Defined Grammatically – 14 May 2018
Schansberg: Income Inequality – 11 May 2018
Half Past the Month: That Crony Capitalist Elephant – 11 May 2018
Morris: Bill Cosby – 7 May 2018
Keating: Tax Abatements and TIFs – 3 May 2018
The Outstater – 2 May 2018
Morris: Voter Apathy Is the Symptom, not the Problem – 30 April 2018
Backgrounder: Repealing the Business Tax – 26 April 2018
The Outstater – 25 April 2018
Morris: The Gender Pay Gap in Perspective – 23 April 2018
Franke: Politically Incorrect but True – 20 April 2018
Backgrounder: Women and Wages – 17 April 2018
Morris: The Agony of a Trump Voter – 16 April 2018
Half Past the Month: The Starbucks Position – 13 April 2018
Franke: ‘McKinley Must Go’ – 10 April 2018
Morris: Thank You Tim from INDOT – 9 April 2018
Van Cott: Jimmy Carter’s ‘Footwear Task Force’ – 6 April 2018
Morris: ‘Dreamers’ Free to Be Regulated – 2 April 2018
Franke: What’s Religion? – 31 March 2018
Schansberg: Saving Bernie Carbo – 30 March 2018
The Outstater: The Indy Star Death Watch – 29 March 2018
Squadrito: School Security Can Be Managed at a Cost – 28 March 2018
Morris: The Legislature Grapples With Sex Education – 26 March 2018
There, We’ve Said It: Young People Are Overrated – 24 March 2018
Eco-Devo Questions Down the Memory Hole – 19 March 2018
Morris: School Shootings and Climate Change – 19 March 2018
The Crash Landing of a Supermajority – 16 March 2018
Business Leadership Silent on TIF – 16 March 2018
Similarities in Foreclosed NC Deal and Fort Wayne’s ‘Electric Works’ – 15 March 2018
Backgrounder: Daylight Saving Time – 13 March 2018
Morris: Managing the New State Insect – 12 March 2018
Donald Trump Versus Adam Smith – 9 March 2018
JFK, Reagan and Supply-Side Tax Cuts – 8 March 2018
The Death of ‘Real’ Barbershops – 6 March 2018
Morris: Capital Punishment – 5 March 2018
Op-Ed: The Birth of a Public-Private Boondoggle – 1 March 2018
McCarthy: Potholes, Priorities, Let’s Fix Them Both – 28 February 2018
Morris: The Strange Politics of ‘Supplemental’ Food – 26 February 2018
Backgrounder: The Obama Presidential Center – 23 February 2018
Schansberg: A Return to ‘Bobos in Paradise’ – 21 February 2018
Op-Ed: Rust Belt Redux? – 20 February 2018
Morris: Conservatism Defined — Sort of – 19 February 2018
Schansberg: You Might Be a Partisan if . . . – 12 February 2018
Morris: Vietnam, a Black Mark on American Journalism – 12 February 2018
Op-Ed: The Unfortunate Bush Style – 8 February 2018
The Outstater: Incumbency and Redistricting – 8 February 2018
Schansberg: Government Licensing – 6 February 2018
Morris: ‘#UsToo’ Shout Indiana Legislators – 5 February 2018
Op-Ed: ‘I’m Smarter than Everyone Else’ – 1 February 2018
Op-Ed: The Presidential IQs – 30 January 2018
Morris: The Dangerous Irony of Hate-Crimes Legislation – 29 January 2018
Backgrounder: Killing Off Townships – 24 January 2018
Keating: ‘Searching for Hope, Life at a Failing School’ – 23 January 2018
Morris: The ‘Perfect’ Generation – 22 January 2018
Backgrounder: The Value of Well-Functioning Households – 17 January 2018
Half Past the Month – 17 January 2018
Morris: Eli Whitney and the Statue Police – 15 January 2018
A Letter to the Membership – 10 January 2018
McCarthy: What’s Next? A Subsidized 20,000-Foot Ballroom? – 10 January 2018
Morris: Offended Sport and Art Patrons, Rise Up! – 8 January 2018
The Book Shelf – 4 January 2018
Racial Zoning: A Historical Perspective – 4 January 2018
Morris: Lawmakers Always Find Their ‘Emergencies’ – 1 January 2018
Morris: Are Yours Ready for Childhood Boot Camp? – 25 December 2017
The Outstater: The Divide Between Liberty and Posture – 23 December 2017
Morris: A Bit of Hallmark Christmas Brightens this Old World – 19 December 2017
Backgrounder: Football, the Flag the Anthem and Race – 19 December 2017
Morris: Forcing Us to Think What We Do not Think – 18 December 2017
Backgrounder: Who Is Working? – 15 December 2017
Morris: A Test of Good Municipal Government – 11 December 2017
The Outstater: Questions Unasked – 6 December 2017
Morris: It’s More Serious than Gerrymandering – 4 December 2017
Leo Morris Wins State’s Top Journalism Award – 3 December 2017
The Outstater: ‘Student Learning’? What a Great Idea – 30 November 2017
Huston: Hating Trump Is not a Public Policy Position – 29 November 2017
The Numbers on Assault: An Argument for the New Chivalry – 29 November 2017
Credit Mobilier Redux – 28 November 2017
Morris: Our ‘Homeless’ Politicians – 27 November 2017
A Dismaying Audit of a GOP Supermajority – 22 November 2017
Morris: Pot Legalization Redefines Federalism – 20 November 2017
Op-Ed: Gun Violence in America — What Won’t Work – 15 November 2017
Morris: Airbnb Tests Property Rights – 13 November 2017
Morris: Statistics Don’t Lie, but Journalists Do – 6 November 2017
The Outstater: Hollywood Is Going to Be the End of Us – 2 November 2017
Huston: Mark Those Who Trust ‘the Process’ in Washington – 31 October 2017
Morris: The Government’s Twist on Morality – 30 October 2017
Op-Ed: Political Corruption and How to Kill It – 27 October 2017
Op-Ed: The AP Doesn’t Think Much of Hoosiers – 24 October 2017
Backgrounder: Schools and Changing Demographics – 24 October 2017
Morris: Hoosiers Can Outgun Texans – 23 October 2017
Morris: No More Mr. Nice Guys – 16 October 2017
Op-Ed: Colin Kaepernick Redux – 14 October 2017
Op-Ed: The Peyton Manning Statue – 9 October 2017
Leo Morris: No Apologies for Giving Life a Chance – 9 October 2017
Op-Ed: A TIF Scandal in Marion – 7 October 2017
Backgrounder: A TIF Comes Home to Roost – 5 October 2017
Schansberg: Middle Class Forgotten in Tax Law – 4 October 2017
The Outstater: Undiversified Diversity – 30 September 2017
Op-Ed: Battle of the Sideline Philosophers – 26 September 2017
The Outstater: City Halls Have Fallen Down the Rabbit Hole – 23 September 2017
Backgrounder: Stopping Chicago-Style Corruption of Indiana Cities – 20 September 2017
McCarthy: NFL Problems Mean Trouble for Indy – 19 September 2017
Backgrounder: What’s Happening with Indiana Corporations? – 18 September 2017
Half Past the Month: Mayoral Horse Manure – 14 September 2017
A Modern Patriot’s Constitutional Journey – 13 September 2017
Seminar Topic: Measuring our Sense of Well-Being – 8 September 2017
Christmas Seminar – 6 September 2017
The Outstater: Of Arnold Toynbee and Flannel Shirts – 4 September 2017
Movie Review: ‘The Founder’ – 4 September 2017
Op-Ed: Corporate Journalism and a Loss of Trust – 30 August 2017
OP-ED: When We Ask the Police to Solve Our Problems – 29 August 2017
The Outstater: Pledge this, Indy Star . . . – 23 August 2017
The South Wall: Purdue’s Daniels Pushes Innovation, Academic Rigor – 21 August 2017
Half Past the Month: Charlottesville, Indiana? – 19 August 2017
Houston: The Charlottesville Rally, Part II – 17 August 2017
Backgrounder: How Boondoggles Happen – 16 August 2017
Huston: The Charlottesville Rally – 15 August 2017
Backgrounder: A History of Sunday and What It Has to Do With Your Beer – 14 August 2017
Discrimination? It Isn’t Spelled ‘Kaepernick’ – 9 August 2017
Backgrounder: Let States Work out Healthcare – 7 August 2017
Economic Development? It Is Us – 31 July 2017
Anatomy of a Regional Cities Project, a Bad One – 26 July 2017
The Next Thing: Journalism by Grant – 24 July 2017
The Outstater: Let’s Hear It for Obstinacy – 20 July 2017
Backgrounder: HUD Serves Up a Plan Without Local Logic – 13 July 2017
Backgrounder: A Council Learns a Lesson — Almost – 12 July 2017
Op-Ed: Journalism Without Trust, the Voucher Debate – 12 July 2017
Backgrounder: The TIF Sales Pitch Is Wearing Thin – 10 July 2017
McCarthy: A Journalism of Misdirection – 10 July 2017
Op-Ed: Missing Point in Debate over Wind Turbines – 5 July 2017
Backgrounder: It’s Power, not Progress – 4 July 2017
Neal: States with Legal Pot Offer Indiana a Cautionary Tale – 3 July 2017
The Outstater: ‘Illiana’ — It’s a State of Mind – 29 June 2017
The Outstater: The GOP and Taxes – 21 June 2017
Talking Points – 19 June 2017
Half Past the Month: The Problem With Indiana Is Indianans? – 15 June 2017
Cummins: Why You Don’t Live in the ‘Best’ City – 12 June 2017
Outstater: The Rachel Maddow School of City Government – 7 June 2017
Keating: Indiana’s Sense of Well-Being – 6 June 2017
Book Review: ‘The Founders at Home’ by Myron Magnet – 3 June 2017
The Outstater: Mitch Daniels in the Land of Fools – 31 May 2017
Reality Check – 30 May 2017
Backgrounder: ‘Mad Anthony’ to the Ramparts – 23 May 2017
Book Review: A ‘Florida’ Vacation? Rethinking Eco-Devo – 21 May 2017
The Outstater: All the Sanctimony Fit to Print – 17 May 2017
Half Past the Month: The Silence on Private Property – 10 May 2017
Backgrounder: First Amendment Fantasies – 3 May 2017
Op-Ed: Yes, Capitalism Is a Good Idea – 1 May 2017
Huston: Automatic Tax Increases – 26 April 2017
The Outstater: Hooray for the Half-Bad – 24 April 2017
Half Past the Month: ‘I Am an American’ — Sort of – 19 April 2017
Op-Ed: Pacer ‘Success’ Needs Qualification – 16 April 2017
The Outstater: The End of the ‘Creative Class’ – 5 April 2017
Op-Ed: A Better Way to Set Election Districts – 4 April 2017
Neal: Replacing ISTEP – 2 April 2017
Property is Important in Bloomington or Gurgaon – 2 April 2017
Op-Ed: Indiana Healthcare – 27 March 2017
Backgrounder: Immigrant Spending Questions – 23 March 2017
I.U.’s Continuing Search for a Nice Guy Who Finishes First – 20 March 2017
Backgrounder: Stretching the Meaning of ‘Economic Development’ – 20 March 2017
Backgrounder: Replacing ObamaCare with a Choice – 16 March 2017
Backgrounder: Luke Kenley Redux? – 15 March 2017
Op-Ed: Mayoral Power – 13 March 2017
Half Past the Month: The Middlebury Way – 9 March 2017
Backgrounder: Exports and Imports – 8 March 2017
Backgrounder: Adjusting the One-Sided Data from the Media – 7 March 2017
Op-Ed: An Alternative to Public-Private ‘Partnerships’ – 6 March 2017
The Outstater: ‘Fake’ News — Literally – 28 February 2017
White Paper: The Anti-American American President – 23 February 2017
The Outstater: McCain and Journalism – 20 February 2017
Keating: Guaranteed Employment – 20 February 2017
Schansberg: Government Groceries – 16 February 2017
Op-Ed: The Eternal ‘Red Line’ — Funded or Not – 15 February 2017
Keating: Trump Trade Policy – 14 February 2017
White Paper: ‘The Unraveling’ – 11 February 2017
Half Past the Month: The Gas Tax – 8 February 2017
Andrea Neal: Dollars to the Classroom – 7 February 2017
Backgrounder: The House Republican Campaign Committee, Puppet Master of the General Assembly – 29 January 2017
The Outstater: The GOP Steps on Itself – 27 January 2017
Schansberg: Understanding Trade Policy – 24 January 2017
Op-Ed: Eco-Devo, Public or Private but not Both – 20 January 2017
Half Past the Month: ‘Unfriending’ the Career Politicians – 16 January 2017
Backgrounder: Whose Lives Matter? – 12 January 2017
Half Past the Month: You versus the Mandarins – 11 January 2017
Huston: Statehouse Mandarins Push a Gas Tax – 10 January 2017
Neal: A Move to Ensure the Bicentennial Legacy – 9 January 2017
Huston: Dan Coats Won’t Be Draining any Swamps – 6 January 2017
Op-Ed: A Gas Tax Hike? Who Does the GOP Represent? – 5 January 2017
Backgrounder: TIF for (all of us) Dummies – 5 January 2017
News Advisory: Neal to Testify on History Curriculum, Requirements – 4 January 2017
The Outstater: Don’t Put Your Hopes in this Session – 28 December 2016
Op-Ed: Let’s Elect Mayors Who Understand Property Rights – 26 December 2016
Neal: Educators in an Era of ‘Fake’ News – 22 December 2016
The Outstater: Passenger Rail and the Mencken Axiom – 21 December 2016
Half Past the Month: ‘False’ News – 20 December 2016
Backgrounder: Capitalism or Cronyism? – 20 December 2016
Backgrounder: The Folly of Food Hoarding – 19 December 2016
Backgrounder: The Keynesian Multiplier – 15 December 2016
Indiana at 200 (100): Meltzer Woods – 12 December 2016
Book Review: A Real Liberal Dresses Down the Phony Ones – 9 December 2016
Op-Ed: Regional Development and Higher Taxes – 7 December 2016
Huston: The Electoral College – 6 December 2016
Backgrounder: Cuba Can’t Blame U.S. Embargo – 6 December 2016
Indiana at 200 (99): 9/11 Etched in Hoosier Memories – 5 December 2016
Huston: The Blaine Campaign – 1 December 2016
The Outstater: When ‘Legacy’ Is Just Another Word – 1 December 2016
Backgrounder: Fidel and Roberto, a Comparison – 29 November 2016
Backgrounder: The Uncertainty of the Electoral College – 29 November 2016
Backgrounder: Hurricanes, Property and Haiti – 22 November 2016
Indiana at 200 (97): Indy Calm as Nation Burned – 21 November 2016
Half Past the Month: Journalism’s Conceit – 18 November 2016
Indiana at 200 (96): Blue Grass and Bean Blossom – 14 November 2016
Neal: Welcome to the New and Populist GOP – 9 November 2016
Indiana at 200 (95): Our Purdue Astronauts – 7 November 2016
Op-Ed: Politics and the Third Commandment – 3 November 2016
Backgrounder: The Problem Is Spending, not Tax Caps – 30 October 2016
Backgrounder: A Bit of Sympathy for Public Officials – 27 October 2016
Schansberg: Constrained and Unconstrained Visions – 25 October 2016
Indiana at 200 (93): A City of Engines and Architecture – 24 October 2016
Half Past the Month: The Pence Admonition – 18 October 2016
Indiana at 200 (92): Hoagy and Cole Topped the Charts – 17 October 2016
The Outstater: A Losing Columbia Club Matrix – 15 October 2016
Op-Ed: Chasing the Shoaff Lake Wolly Bugger – 12 October 2016
Bohanon: In Defense of Ideas, Discussion, at BSU – 11 October 2016
Indiana at 200 (91): Indiana’s Drive-In Restaurant Era – 10 October 2016
Keating: ‘The Scandal of Money’ by George Gilder – 5 October 2016
Indiana at 200 (90): Fort Wayne, a City of Entrepreneurs – 2 October 2016
The Outstater: Civil Rights and Softheadedness — A Distinction – 1 October 2016
Backgrounder: History Is Against Business Tax – 28 September 2016
The Outstater: Golfing with the Government – 26 September 2016
Indiana at 200: Hoosier Played Key Role in Civil Rights – 26 September 2016
The Outstater: The Combat Vietnam Veterans M.C. – 21 September 2016
Backgrounder: The Homestead Tax Credit – 20 September 2016
Indiana at 200 (88): Wendell L. Willkie – 19 September 2016
Huston: What’s Wrong With Conservative Thinking on Child Care – 16 September 2016
Update: Indiana Grade Inflation – 14 September 2016
White Paper: Doubts About INDOT Disparity Study – 14 September 2016
Indiana at 200 (87): Jazz Along Indiana Avenue – 12 September 2016
Op-Ed: Business Versus Schools, Sewers, Etc. – 8 September 2016
Phyllis Schlafly – 6 September 2016
Indiana at 200 (86): USS Indianapolis – 5 September 2016
The Outstater: Clarity and the Local Economy – 31 August 2016
Indiana at 200 (85): Lt. Col. Horace Hickam – 29 August 2016
Letter to the editors – 26 August 2016
The Outstater: Democracy by the Distant and Detached – 24 August 2016
Indiana at 200 (84): Ernie Pyle – 22 August 2016
Backgrounder: The School Lunch Program – 19 August 2016
Half Past the Month: Government Theatre – 17 August 2016
Backgrounder: Don’t Cry for the Iceman – 15 August 2016
From the South Wall: Ben-Hur Rides Again – 11 August 2016
Schansberg: Eugenics at Indiana University – 10 August 2016
Indiana at 200 (83): The Evansville Flood of 1937 – 8 August 2016
The Outstater: Saving the World one Parking Space at a Time – 3 August 2016
McGisms, Dry-Ice Funerals and Journalism’s Salvation – 28 July 2016
Op-Ed: Republicans in the Dock – 27 July 2016
Backgrounder: Minimum Wage, Minimum Thought – 25 July 2016
Indiana at 200 (82): Gov. McNutt and the New Deal – 25 July 2016
Huston: GOP Childishness – 22 July 2016
Schansberg: Reflections on ‘Trumpers’ – 19 July 2016
Bohanon: Two Views of Right to Petition – 18 July 2016
Op-Ed: Growth and Your Local School Board – 12 July 2016
The Outstater: Subsidized Downtown Residential – 11 July 2016
Indiana at 200 (81): The First Hoosier Congresswoman – 10 July 2016
The Outstater: What if the Colts Aren’t Worth It? – 4 July 2016
From the South Wall: The Indy Transit Referendum – 29 June 2016
Backgrounder: Indiana after Brexit – 28 June 2016
Backgrounder: Ditch the Eco-Devo for Tax Reform – 27 June 2016
Indiana at 200 (80): Car Companies Thrived Here – 27 June 2016
The Outstater – 23 June 2016
Backgrounder: The AP and Quota Populism – 18 June 2016
A Post-Election Seminar – 17 June 2016
Half Past the Month – 16 June 2016
Huston: The Orlando Mass Murder – 15 June 2016
Indiana at 200 (79): Klan Had Short-Lived Power Here – 13 June 2016
Huston: The Death Wish of the ‘Stupid’ Party – 8 June 2016
Backgrounder: The New Indiana Business Courts – 6 June 2016
The Outstater: The Pence Amoeba and ‘Fee-for-Service’ – 3 June 2016
Backgrounder: The Truth About Growth – 1 June 2016
Indiana at 200 (78): Eugene Debs – 30 May 2016
White Paper: Student-Based Budgeting – 29 May 2016
The Outstater: Why not Import a Mayor? – 20 May 2016
Huston: Conservative Criticism Is a Constant – 20 May 2016
Op-Ed: TIF Merely ‘Chases’ the Economy – 18 May 2016
Half Past the Month: Pro Wrestling Is Real – 17 May 2016
Indiana at 200 (77): Hoosier First to Die in WWI – 16 May 2016
Half Past the Month: Conceptually, We’re OK – 13 May 2016
Op-Ed: Political ‘Decisions’ or Scams? – 9 May 2016
Huston: Who Was ‘Leading’ the Indiana GOP? – 5 May 2016
Backgrounder: ‘Creating’ Jobs not the Whole Answer – 5 May 2016
Andrea Neal: Bureaucrats Call Shots with Red Line – 5 May 2016
Indiana at 200 (76): Parks are Legacy of 1916 Centennial – 2 May 2016
The Outstater: Annexed for ‘Beads of Glass’ – 28 April 2016
Op-Ed: Motive Matters in Annexation – 26 April 2016
The Outstater: The ‘Rules’ of Politics – 20 April 2016
Indiana at 200 (75): Vice President Marshall – 18 April 2016
The Outstater: Fake Journalism – 17 April 2016
Huston: A Rigged GOP Delegate System – 11 April 2016
Oetting: The Cure for Poverty Is Right Next Door – 6 April 2016
Special Report: Civil Forfeiture in Indiana – 6 April 2016
Indiana at 200 (74): Indy 500 Is Indiana – 4 April 2016
Huston: Rule 40, a Living Document? – 2 April 2016
Indiana at 200 (94): Basketball, a Common Identity – 31 March 2016
Van Cott: Why We Say ‘Thank You’ – 30 March 2016
Neal: The ISTEP Committee – 30 March 2016
Huston: The Reality of Third Parties – 26 March 2016
McCarthy: ‘Free’ Rides to the Bread and Circus – 23 March 2016
The Outstater: Do We All Live in Brussels Now? – 23 March 2016
Indiana at 200 (73): A History of Bestselling Authors – 21 March 2016
Bohanon: Trumpism Explained – 21 March 2016
Pickerill: The Two-Party Cartel – 17 March 2016
Huston: The Woeful History of Third Parties – 16 March 2016
Huston: A Pre-Revolutionary Environment? – 12 March 2016
The Outstater: Ben Franklin’s Defense of the Middle Class – 9 March 2016
Indiana at 200 (72): Sadly, Indiana Pioneered Eugenics – 7 March 2016
The Outstater: LGBT or STEM – 4 March 2016
Watts: Who Took What Jobs? – 29 February 2016
Backgrounder: Dedicated Bus Lanes Are a Bust – 25 February 2016
Study Questions Impact of Indy’s Red Line – 22 February 2016
Indiana at 200 (71): The City that Steel Built – 22 February 2016
The Outstater: Of ‘Diversity’ Lost – 16 February 2016
Backgrounder: Trumpism and the Invisible Man – 13 February 2016
Backgrounder: BSU Researchers Critical of TIF – 9 February 2016
Indiana at 200 (70): Indiana’s Carnegie Libraries – 8 February 2016
Bohanon: Trump and the Trade Question – 8 February 2016
Backgrounder: The Flint Water Debacle – 1 February 2016
Backgrounder: Heroes, Not Emigrants – 28 January 2016
Priorities Matter in Bombay, Flint and Terre Haute – 26 January 2016
Bohanon: The Education of a Progressive – 25 January 2016
Indiana at 200 (69): The First Mental Hospital – 25 January 2016
Schansberg: An Intellectual Defense of Trump Fans – 22 January 2016
The Outstater: ‘Lost’ LGBT Business – 21 January 2016
McCarthy: The Enduring ‘Gift’ of TIF – 18 January 2016
Schansberg: A Look at Global Christianity – 17 January 2016
The GOP Devisiveness Quiz – 11 January 2016
Indiana at 200 (68): Indiana’s Round Barns – 11 January 2016
Schansberg: The ‘Tragedy’ of Repair-Free Cars – 7 January 2016
Huston: Commanding Neighborhood Groceries – 5 January 2016
Backgrounder: Regional Cities Plans – 4 January 2016
Cummins: Is Your Town Going Bankrupt? – 30 December 2015
Indiana at 200 (67): The Kankakee Basin – 28 December 2015
Huston: The Evolvement of George Will – 27 December 2015
The Outstater: Seasonal Bric-a-brac – 27 December 2015
Backgrounder: Indy vs. Oklahoma City – 21 December 2015
The Outstater: Pigs in a Poke – 21 December 2015
Volmerding: Render Unto God and Care for the Poor – 21 December 2015
Letter to the Editor – 21 December 2015
The Outstater: What the #&*%@ Happened to the Star? – 15 December 2015
Pickerill: Electoral College for Dummies – 15 December 2015
Andrea Neal: Clean Power Plan Would Hurt Indiana Economy – 14 December 2015
Indiana at 200 (66): Indiana’s ‘Dan Patch’ – 13 December 2015
Kessler: The Public-Private Partnership Trap – 11 December 2015
Schansberg: Immigration, Productive or Not? – 9 December 2015
Bohanon: Counting Conservatives, Terrorists – 9 December 2015
Keating: The Folly of Tax Abatements – 7 December 2015
The Outstater: Business Groups on the Make – 1 December 2015
Huston: Here Come the Property Police – 1 December 2015
Indiana at 200 (65): Fastest Cyclist in the World – 30 November 2015
The Outstater: A Mayor Immigrates – 24 November 2015
Keating: The SEC and Breaking Trust – 23 November 2015
Indiana at 200 (64): The Social Gospel Pastors – 16 November 2015
Huston: The Inevitability of an Attack Here – 15 November 2015
Half Past the Month: Research First, Then Publicize – 14 November 2015
Op-Ed: Mizzou Redux, 1970 – 13 November 2015
The Outstater: Trust and Grow – 12 November 2015
The South Wall: ‘The Trouble with ISTEP’ – 10 November 2015
Bohanon: A Definition of Christian Charity – 9 November 2015
Indiana at 200 (63): Elwood Haynes – 2 November 2015
Backgrounder: Zoning – 1 November 2015
Shreds and Snippets – 29 October 2015
McCarthy: The IBJ Insults our Intelligence – 27 October 2015
The Outstater: Coolidge in the Voting Booth – 26 October 2015
Pickerill: When Is a Republican not a Republican? – 26 October 2015
Bohanon: The Danger of Being ‘Right’ – 26 October 2015
Keating: ‘The American Dream in Crisis’ – 21 October 2015
Indiana at 200 (62): Miami Denied Recognition – 19 October 2015
Half Past the Month: ‘All Land Matters’ – 17 October 2015
From the South Wall: Watchdogs Win – 12 October 2015
Bohanon: Let Locals Set Their Own Food Tax – 11 October 2015
Outstater: The Crime-Fighting Pose – 8 October 2015
Huston: ‘Welcome’ to Indiana Eco-Devo – 7 October 2015
McCarthy: Not Your Father’s Indy Star – 7 October 2015
Indiana at 200 (61): Benjamin Harrison – 5 October 2015
McCarthy: Not Your Father’s Indy Star – 30 September 2015
The Outstater: A Need for Civic Heroes – 28 September 2015
Backgrounder: The Teacher Shortage – 22 September 2015
Bohanon: Trump and the Numbers – 21 September 2015
Indiana at 200 (60): Amish Thriving in Northern Indiana – 21 September 2015
A Chart Your Councilman Doesn’t Want You to See – 16 September 2015
The Outstater: The Timidity of the Indiana GOP – 14 September 2015
Cummins: The Catch Phrases of a Sham Government – 10 September 2015
The Outstater: Why Government Fails – 10 September 2015
White paper: TIF – It’s not Working the Way We Were Told It Would – 8 September 2015
Indiana at 200 (59): A City Built on Natural Gas – 7 September 2015
The Outstater: A Conflict of Visions Over Regional Cities – 6 September 2015
Bohanon: Daffodils and Civil Society – 31 August 2015
An Open Letter to the Indianapolis Star – 28 August 2015
Kessler: The Role of Government – 27 August 2015
Indiana at 200 (58): Capitol Is a Gathering Place for Hoosiers – 24 August 2015
Keating: Dependency, Income and Labor-Force Participation – 21 August 2015
Can Rural Indiana Keep Up in the Info-Age? – 21 August 2015
White Paper: The Missing Elements for a Strategic, Statewide Broadband Plan for Indiana – 17 August 2015
Bohanon: Good Economics Requires Humility – 17 August 2015
Indiana at 200 (57): Indiana’s First Black Lawmaker – 10 August 2015
Walker: What Is Crony Capitalism? – 5 August 2015
Not-so-Diverse Newsrooms – 1 August 2015
Doc Ippel: The Secrets of Pair-Bonding – 30 July 2015
King: The Duty of Disobedience – 30 July 2015
Indiana at 200 (56): King Coal – 27 July 2015
Wanted: A Lawyer to Save the Law – 25 July 2015
Draft Copy: Horning Pro Se Complaint – 25 July 2015
Bohanon: Making the Hard Call on Indiana’s Reserves – 20 July 2015
The Outstater: Eco-Devo Pyramids – 16 July 2015
Indiana at 200 (55): Indiana’s Covered Bridges – 13 July 2015
An Unpretentious Election Scorecard – 9 July 2015
The Outstater: A Broader Measure of Business Climate – 7 July 2015
Bohanon: The Greek Crisis and Two Views of Justice – 6 July 2015
White Paper: Rating the Indiana Chamber of Commerce – 3 July 2015
Staley: The Confederate Flag Debate (Unreduced) – 3 July 2015
Horning: Equality Was Born on July 4 – 3 July 2015
Backgrounder: A Lutheran Uprising? Not Likely – 30 June 2015
Huston: Gen. Lee Down the Memory Hole – 29 June 2015
Indiana at 200 (54): A Better Plow, Thanks to Oliver – 28 June 2015
Doc Ippel: Some In-Your-Face Climate Optimism – 26 June 2015
The Outstater: A Parade for the Times – 25 June 2015
Bohanon: Dylann, Dzhokhar and the Devil – 22 June 2015
Huston: The GOP Fallout from RFRA – 20 June 2015
The Outstater: Walter Mitty Polls the Governor – 19 June 2015
Huston: A Crowded Field Until the Finish? – 17 June 2015
Backgrounder: Redefining the ‘thin blue line’ – 15 June 2015
Indiana at 200 (53): Gene Stratton-Porter – 15 June 2015
The Outstater: Safe at any Speed – 14 June 2015
Doc Ippel: The Obesity ‘Epidemic’ – 12 June 2015
This School Offers a Future to Students With a Past – 9 June 2015
Bohanon: Why One Economist Cans His Own Spinach – 8 June 2015
The Outstater: Could You Win a GOP Primary? – 6 June 2015
Horning: An Unconstitutional Two-Party System – 2 June 2015
Indiana at 200 (52): Railroads Transformed Indiana – 1 June 2015
King: Political Parties Overwhelmed by Interest Groups – 28 May 2015
The Outstater: The Dukes of Democracy – 26 May 2015
The Outstater: Goodbye Indy Star, et al. – 26 May 2015
Huston: Indiana’s Two-Faced Tax System – 19 May 2015
Indiana at 200 (51): Lew Wallace – 18 May 2015
Ippel: Pain Medicine and Book Covers – 15 May 2015
Half Past the Month: ‘Saving’ the Governor – 13 May 2015
Bohanon: For-Profit and State-Run Enterprises – 11 May 2015
Indiana at 200 (50): Famous, Infamous at Crown Hill – 4 May 2015
Outstater: No ‘Indiana mandate’ for Gregg, Pence? – 1 May 2015
Bohanon: A Simple Guide to Presidential Politics – 27 April 2015
Outstater: ‘Your Life Matters’ – 21 April 2015
Indiana at 200 (49): Eli Lilly Built State’s Iconic Business – 20 April 2015
Half Past the Month: We’re All Rechtsstaat Now – 15 April 2015
Huston: More Junk Journalism from the Star – 13 April 2015
Bohanon: Adam Smith on RFRAs – 13 April 2015
Schansberg: Tax Day 2015 – 10 April 2015
The Outstater: Are Big Shot Corporations Necessary? – 7 April 2015
King: ‘Where’s the Outrage?’ – 7 April 2015
Indiana at 200 (48): Purdue and its Land Grant – 6 April 2015
Op-Ed: The Arrogance of ‘History’ – 1 April 2015
Huston III: Who Decides and in What Forum? – 30 March 2015
Schansberg on the RFRA: Relying on Law to Mediate Social Differences – 30 March 2015
Bohanon: A Critical Look at Higher Education – 30 March 2015
Huston II: The Religious Freedom Firestorm – 28 March 2015
Neal: Federal Influence in Education Outweighs Benefits – 27 March 2015
Huston I: The Baker and the Photographer – 27 March 2015
Op-Ed: Restoring Self-Government to Education – 25 March 2015
The Outstater: A Starbucks Range of Issues – 24 March 2015
Indiana at 200 (47): The State Fair – 23 March 2015
Op-Ed: Ferguson by the Numbers – 20 March 2015
The Outstater: J-Schools Have Reason to Be Embarrassed – 18 March 2015
Half Past the Month: A GOP Moratorium on Enterprise – 13 March 2015
Schansberg: NCLB and Common Core to the Rescue? – 12 March 2015
Backgrounder: Is Federal Education Aid Worth It? – 9 March 2015
Indiana at 200 (46): Indiana’s Colored Regiment – 9 March 2015
Charlie Rice, Rest in Peace – 4 March 2015
Huston: Indy Soccer Stadium – 25 February 2015
Indiana at 200 (45): We Responded to Lincoln’s Call – 23 February 2015
The Outstater: A Preschool Mirage – 22 February 2015
Schansberg: Trying to Legislate Prosperity – 18 February 2015
Cummins: Setting Your Wage – 18 February 2015
Half Past the Month – 17 February 2015
King: The Court Slides Towards Gomorrah – 16 February 2015
Bohanon: Sunday Liquor Debate Is Textbook – 16 February 2015
Huston: A Time to Affirm Journalism Traditions – 9 February 2015
Indiana at 200 (44): Morton Kept State with Lincoln – 9 February 2015
Schansberg: Before the Cradle Until After the Grave – 6 February 2015
Immigration From the Inside Out – 6 February 2015
Bohanon: The Headlines Haven’t Changed in 57 Years – 2 February 2015
Top of the Month: The ‘News’ Is the News – 30 January 2015
Indiana at 200 (43): French Lick and West Baden – 26 January 2015
Huston: Sunday Liquor Sales – 24 January 2015
Sorry, Congressman, but Your Vision Is Crushing Us – 23 January 2015
The Outstater: The Hoosier Political Emigrant – 19 January 2015
Bohanon: Reflections on Je Suis Charlie – 19 January 2015
(2) Schansberg on Higher-Ed Reform: How Much Does ‘Free’ Cost? – 14 January 2015
(1) Schansberg on Higher-Ed Reform: More Political Theater? – 14 January 2015
Half Past the Month: Education Reform in Two Steps – 12 January 2015
Indiana at 200 (42): Indiana Got Into Boat Building Early – 12 January 2015
King: Cassandra and the ‘Mature Minor’ Doctrine – 9 January 2015
The Great Divergence: Cop or Police Officer? – 5 January 2015
Bohanon: A Swedish Reform for a Hoosier Scholarship – 5 January 2015
Ippel: Buying Your Car, Buying Your Healthcare – 29 December 2014
Indiana at 200 (41): T.C. Steele, Hoosier Artist – 29 December 2014
Coelho and McClure: The Minimum Wage – 23 December 2014
Schansberg: In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government — Still – 22 December 2014
Half Past the Month: Adam Smith Meets Jane Austin Meets Benito Mussolini – 17 December 2014
Horning: The Solution Is in Your Mirror – 17 December 2014
Schansberg: ‘Rational’ Ignorance Costly to Our Economic Health – 17 December 2014
Gaski: ‘On Church, State, Christmas and Liberals’ – 15 December 2014
Indiana at 200 (40): Dublin Hosted 1st Women’s Conference – 15 December 2014
A Doctor’s Concern for Private Practice – 9 December 2014
College Football and the Role of Government – 9 December 2014
Bohanon on Prejudice: ‘Nor Can I Have Any Other Way’ – 8 December 2014
Republicans: ‘That’s Not How It Works . . .’ – 5 December 2014
Big Hospitals, Big Bills, a Better Idea – 2 December 2014
Indiana at 200 (39): Caleb Mills Helped Build Indiana School System – 1 December 2014
Horning: Jonathan Gruber’s Got Your Number – 26 November 2014
The Outstater: The Indy Star Strikes a ‘Racist’ Cartoon – 24 November 2014
Half Past the Month: The Chamber’s Education ‘Reform’ – 21 November 2014
King: Indiana and Pence Score High on Cato Index – 20 November 2014
Indiana at 200 (38): A ‘Radical’ Republican – 17 November 2014
Doc Ippel: An Endangered ‘Small Business’ – 12 November 2014
Bohanon: A Lion of Economics Dies on Election Day – 10 November 2014
The Outstater: OK, Now Let’s Try Political Character – 5 November 2014
Indiana at 200 (37): 1851 Constitution Kept Us Debt Free – 3 November 2014
The Outstater: Paddling Toward Ferguson – 27 October 2014
Bohanon: Voting Is a Right but Being Informed Is a Duty – 26 October 2014
Backgrounder: Social Security, a Christian Objection – 26 October 2014
Indiana at 200 (36): Indiana Family Helped Slaves Escape – 20 October 2014
Half Past the Month: A Hyphenated-American Appeal – 13 October 2014
Doc Ippel: Medicare and Deciding About Decisions – 9 October 2014
King: Mixing Politics, Religion and Millennials – 9 October 2014
Outstater: Holy Underwear, Let’s Make Some Policy – 7 October 2014
Indiana at 200 (35): Riley Loved for Homespun Poetry – 6 October 2014
Bohanon: Inebriation, Micro-Aggression and Sensitivity – 29 September 2014
Backgrounder: Keeping the Crony Out of Capitalism – 28 September 2014
Veterans’ Day 2014: ‘Lawyers at War’ – 23 September 2014
Keating: The Parents’ Role in Career Discernment – 23 September 2014
Indiana at 200 (34): The Founding of Notre Dame du Lac – 22 September 2014
Half Past the Month: It Isn’t the Game They Think It Is – 16 September 2014
Bohanon: Students, Defeat Those Higher-Ed Blues – 15 September 2014
Indiana at 200 (33): Banker Lanier Made his Mark Here – 8 September 2014
The Outstater: The ‘Secret’ to Local Economic Development – 4 September 2014
Backgrounder: Obamacare and a Tale of Four Students – 1 September 2014
Doc Ippel: Tobacco Revenue Trumps Health Concerns – 29 August 2014
Keating: The Danger of Multi-Tasking at the Fed – 26 August 2014
Indiana at 200 (32): Potawatomi Forced From Indiana – 25 August 2014
The Outstater: Indiana’s ‘Uncertainty Index’ – 20 August 2014
Huston: GOP Agnosia in Ferguson – 19 August 2014
Bohanon: Stop Vilifying, Follow the Incentives – 18 August 2014
Preschool: Government Is a Poor Teacher of Self-Control – 17 August 2014
The Outstater: A Reinvented Indy Star? – 14 August 2014
Huston: Republicans Can’t Throw a Punch – 14 August 2014
Indiana at 200 (31): ‘Paddle Your Own Canoe’ – 11 August 2014
Schansberg: The Incongruities of Labor Unions – 10 August 2014
Half Past the Month: The Game Is Up – 8 August 2014
Keating: Reduced Hours or Layoffs? – 4 August 2014
The Outstater: Consolidation Unraveled – 30 July 2014
Indiana at 200 (30): Fleeting Canal Era Had Lasting Impact – 28 July 2014
Ippel: When Your Doctor Was Your Doctor – 28 July 2014
Polarization Part IV – 26 July 2014
News Advisory: Zoeller on the 17th Amendment – 22 July 2014
Bohanon: Spend the Surplus? Been There, Done That – 21 July 2014
Zoeller: Is There a Better Way to Select Indiana Senators? – 17 July 2014
The 9 States of Indiana: Diversity Inside Out – 17 July 2014
Huston: ‘Airbrushing’ Confederate History in Indy – 15 July 2014
Indiana at 200 (29): The Fame of Indiana Limestone – 14 July 2014
Half Past the Month: Happy Alternatives? – 9 July 2014
Bohanon: Religious Witness and Public Policy – 7 July 2014
Outstater: The Soccer-Football Dust-Up – 3 July 2014
Schansberg: Overlooking the Working Poor – 3 July 2014
King: The Hobby Lobby Decision Demystified – 2 July 2014
Polarization Part III – 30 June 2014
Indiana at 200 (28): The National Road – 30 June 2014
Polarization Part II – 27 June 2014
Polarization: Part I – 25 June 2014
Quick Hit: ‘Redskins’ and Fort Wayne Hypocrisy – 23 June 2014
Bohanon: 7 Things to Like About the World Cup – 23 June 2014
The Outstater: When the Law Is not the Law – 19 June 2014
Half Past the Month: Souder Saves Us from Authoritarianism – 17 June 2014
Indiana at 200 (27): Free Blacks Migrated to Indiana – 16 June 2014
Watts: A New Generation’s Constitutional Perspective – 11 June 2014
Quick Hit: Tulley Blew it, not Mourdock – 10 June 2014
Bohanon: Do Hoosiers Want to Be Hoosiers? – 9 June 2014
The Bergdahl Delusion: Man Overboard – 6 June 2014
Quick Hit: A Political Culture – 4 June 2014
Indiana at 200 (26): IU Began as a ‘Seminary’ in 1820 – 2 June 2014
Newsletter: Why Municipal Unions? – 31 May 2014
Registration Is Open for Summer Journal, ‘A Constitutional Moment’ – 27 May 2014
Ippel: The Unintended Consequences of Pill Policy – 26 May 2014
Quick Hit: The Low Bar of the VA Veteran – 21 May 2014
Indiana at 200 (25): Marquis de Lafayette a Big Hit in Jeffersonville – 19 May 2014
Watts: A Letter From the Future Constitutional Republic – 15 May 2014
Quick Hit: City Unions – 11 May 2014
Watts on Article V: ‘Our Constitutional Moment’ – 6 May 2014
Indiana at 200 (24): Massacre at Fall Creek Tested Frontier Justice – 5 May 2014
Quick Hit: Wind Farms – 4 May 2014
The Outstater: Republicanism’s ‘Big Mistake’ – 4 May 2014
Newsletter: Who Cares About Education Spending? – 28 April 2014
Bohanon: Mixing Religion and Economic Disciplines – 28 April 2014
Indiana at 200 (23): Committee Picked Indy as Capital – 21 April 2014
Education Standards: The Next Step Redux – 19 April 2014
The Outstater: Confessions of a Baby Boomer – 18 April 2014
A Matter of Leadership: Will Pence Restore Education Standards? – 17 April 2014
Watts: Indiana ‘Fivers’ for a Balanced Budget – 16 April 2014
Bohanon: Economics in Las Vegas or in Bible Study – 14 April 2014
Half Past the Month: The Kenley Rule and Common Core – 10 April 2014
Schansberg: The 1040 Tax Form Turns 100 – 8 April 2014
Indiana at 200 (22): Slavery Existed in ‘Free’ Indiana – 7 April 2014
Bohanon: Downton Abbey and Political Labels – 31 March 2014
Cummins: How to Deal With a Public-Employee Union – 28 March 2014
The Outstater: Hispanics and a Phony Baloney GOP – 26 March 2014
Indiana at 200 (21): Gov. Jonathan Jennings – 24 March 2014
Quick Hit: Political Apologies – 20 March 2014
Keating: ‘Jobbers’ and Reviving U.S. Manufacturing – 19 March 2014
Half Past the Month: The Farce of Facade Grants – 18 March 2014
Bohanon: When Government Kills Jobs – 17 March 2014
Indiana at 200 (20): Indiana Becomes 16th State – 10 March 2014
Bohanon: Is Health Care a Right? – 3 March 2014
Indiana at 200 (19): Framers Met Under an Elm – 24 February 2014
The Spring Journal: ‘Why Politics Turned Nasty’ – 20 February 2014
The Public Debate Is Reduced to Misology – 17 February 2014
Quick Hit: Racial Journalism – 14 February 2014
Quick Hit: Discretion in Sentencing – 12 February 2014
Indiana at 200 (18): Years Here Shaped Abe Lincoln – 10 February 2014
Quick Hit: Regulating Pharmaceuticals – 4 February 2014
Quick Hit: Super Bowl Exposes Boosterish Media – 3 February 2014
Bohanon: Must Politics Be Nasty? (Part III) – 3 February 2014
Quick Hit: The Star Fails Cursive – 2 February 2014
Quick Hit: Better Ideas than Raising the Minimum Wage – 30 January 2014
Quick Hit: We’ve Forgotten What Exercised Mr. Revere – 29 January 2014
Quick Hit: ‘What’s the Purpose of Education, Really?’ – 28 January 2014
Indiana at 200 (17): The Harmonists near Evansville – 27 January 2014
The Indiana GOP: Catching a Slippery Pig – 25 January 2014
Huston: Religious Liberty and the Public Peace – 20 January 2014
Bohanon: Must Politics Be Nasty? (Part II) – 20 January 2014
Half Past the Month: Preschool, a Cynical View – 16 January 2014
Schansberg: How We Measure ‘Poverty’ – 13 January 2014
Indiana at 200 (16): Frontier Violence at Pigeon Roost – 13 January 2014
Bridgegate: The Failed Management of Transportation – 11 January 2014
Bohanon: Must Politics Be Nasty? (Part I) – 6 January 2014
Kick-Starting the Month – 2 January 2014
This Council Veteran Is Skeptical of Tax-Cut Grief – 31 December 2013
Indiana at 200 (15): The Battle of Tippecanoe – 30 December 2013
Half Past the Month: ‘We’ll Miss Sheriffs When They’re Gone’ – 23 December 2013
This Redevelopment Plan Makes a Poor Christmas Gift – 23 December 2013
Indiana at 200 (14): The Swiss Created Our First Commercial Winery – 16 December 2013
Bohanon: Obamacare’s Youth Market: A Policy Misfit? – 9 December 2013
Strapped Local Government? Try Setting Priorities – 6 December 2013
Op-Ed: Indiana Can Rein in Federal Regulators – 5 December 2013
An Evil Eye and an Unequal Hand: The Lurking Threat to Liberty in Land-Use Regulation – 3 December 2013
Indiana at 200 (13): Lewis and Clark Joined Forces Here – 2 December 2013
Bohanon: The Middle Class in Red, Blue States – 25 November 2013
Huston: The Hard Life of a Genuine Moderate – 19 November 2013
Huston: Reminiscences of a Conservative Dawn – 19 November 2013
Indiana at 200 (12): William Henry Harrison Shaped Indiana from Vincennes – 18 November 2013
Huston: Getting ‘Right’ With History – 15 November 2013
Schansberg: Not one but Three Historical Figures Died Nov. 22, 1963 – 13 November 2013
Bohanon: Adam Smith and the Rationale of Pre-School – 11 November 2013
Newsletter: Common Core Restarts the Discussion – 5 November 2013
Indiana at 200 (11): ‘Little Turtle’ Led in War and Peace – 4 November 2013
The Outstater: Sometimes it Pays to Be Dumb – 28 October 2013
O’Toole: The Folly of Indiana Mass Transit – 21 October 2013
Indiana at 200 (10): Hoosier Values Were Shaped by Northwest Ordinance – 21 October 2013
Half Past the Month: Ready for a ‘Convention of the States’? – 17 October 2013
Bohanon: Is Government Redistribution Biblical Justice? – 14 October 2013
The Outstater: ‘Twittering Away the Political Discussion’ – 10 October 2013
Watts: Hold that Minimum-Wage Hike – 9 October 2013
Indiana at 200 (9): George Rogers Clark, Indiana’s Hero – 7 October 2013
Bohanon: Obamacare Is a Penalty on Bootstraps – 30 September 2013
‘Noblesse Oblige’ for an Indiana Senator? – 24 September 2013
Indiana at 200 (8): First Church Congregation Still Thriving in Vincennes – 23 September 2013
Bohanon: Universal Benefits — the Impulse to McGovern – 16 September 2013
Indiana at 200 (7): Bison Made First Indiana Road – 8 September 2013
The Outstater: The End of Rust Belt Chic – 3 September 2013
Keating: ‘Learning to Learn’ Is not a Cliché – 30 August 2013
Reality Check: Comments on a ‘Con-Con’ – 29 August 2013
Indiana at 200 (6): History on the Banks of the Wabash – 26 August 2013
A Legislator Demystifies Tax Increment Financing – 23 August 2013
Gaski: Against ObamaCare, Good PR Can Save Lives – 20 August 2013
Bohanon: A Charter School for Ahmed? Why Not? – 19 August 2013
Schansberg: The Minimum Wage Is Minimally Helpful – 15 August 2013
Mass Transit: The Real Discussion Begins – 14 August 2013
Half Past the Month: The Ficus Syndrome – 12 August 2013
Indiana at 200 (5): Land of Three Rivers – 12 August 2013
Economic Development: Indiana’s Wobbly TIF Law – 10 August 2013
Bohanon: Yes to Vouchers but Let’s Stick to the Facts – 5 August 2013
King: DOMA Ruling Leaves Indiana with Uncertainty – 3 August 2013
Marion — The Café Valley Deal – 31 July 2013
Indiana at 200 (4): First White Man in Indiana? Un Francais, sans Doute – 29 July 2013
Morris: Indiana Should Stick with the Red-State Model – 26 July 2013
Keating: At Fair Time, 4-H ‘Learns by Doing’ – 26 July 2013
Keating: A Critical Review of TIF and Abatement – 24 July 2013
Bohanon: Youth Unemployment — How Bad Is It? – 22 July 2013
DeHaven: Indiana Joins Washington in Crony Capitalism – 20 July 2013
Schansberg: ‘Who Prevails with the Prevailing Wage? – 16 July 2013
Indiana at 200 (3) | State’s Economy Built on Agriculture – 15 July 2013
King: Immigration — ‘Not More Government, Better Governance’ – 15 July 2013
Newsletter | Indy Economic Development: It’s not Cricket – 5 July 2013
King | Same-Sex Marriage in Indiana: Who Decides? – 1 July 2013
Indiana at 200 (2): Mounds Leave Evidence of Indigenous Hoosiers – 1 July 2013
Keating: Youth Are Floundering in Rigid Labor Markets – 27 June 2013
King: Federalism and the Supreme Court Rulings – 26 June 2013
King: The Need for Honest State-Based Research – 24 June 2013
Heller: Indiana’s Favor-Ridden TIF Districts – 20 June 2013
DeHaven: A Federal Lieutenant Governor? – 20 June 2013
Half Past the Month: ‘Helmholtz,’ a Return to Reality – 19 June 2013
Indiana at 200 (1): The Ice Age Made Indiana – 17 June 2013
Neal: Historical Column Begins — ‘Indiana at 200’ – 15 June 2013
Bohanon: ‘Dr. Evil and Energy Subsidies’ – 10 June 2013
Neal: Marijuana and Tobacco, Mixed Messages – 3 June 2013
The Outstater: Immigration, a Testimonial – 31 May 2013
Neal: Common Core Debate Is Far From Over – 27 May 2013
Bohanon: Tilting at Hoosier Windmills – 20 May 2013
The ISTEP: A Test That’s not Passing the Test – 14 May 2013
Neal: ‘You Can Thank Gov. Bowen for Tax Relief’ – 13 May 2013
Bohanon: In Praise of Boring Government – 6 May 2013
Summer Seminar 2013 – 30 April 2013
Half Past the Month: The ‘Prevailing’ Wage – 24 April 2013
The Indiana GOP: Where’s it Going? – 24 April 2013
King: Same-Sex Marriage — a Fundamental Right? – 24 April 2013
Keating: Economic Development? Try Common Sense – 22 April 2013
Neal: Pence’s Leadership Challenge – 15 April 2013
Schansberg: We ‘Celebrate’ the Income Tax Centennial – 10 April 2013
Bohanon: The Case for Immigration – 8 April 2013
King: Controlling the Statehouse ‘Culture of Coziness’ – 27 March 2013
Bohanon: The Case Against Immigration – 25 March 2013
A Hoosier Judge Asks: Why Do They Hate Americans? – 22 March 2013
Neal | Common Core: ‘Who’s Running Indiana Schools?’ – 18 March 2013
Indiana GOP Leadership Failing Budget Test – 11 March 2013
Carbon Paper Suggests a New Kind of University – 11 March 2013
King: Predicting Gubernatorial Performance – 6 March 2013
Neal: For Growth’s Sake, Let’s Cut Indiana’s Income Tax – 4 March 2013
‘My Proposal to Save Indiana $100 Million Annually’ – 1 March 2013
Keating: We Can Cap Deductions but Entitlements Still Vex – 1 March 2013
The Outstater: Here’s a Really ‘Extreme’ Point of View – 28 February 2013
Bohanon: Isn’t the State Supposed to Limit Gambling? – 25 February 2013
Keating: Indexing Economic Freedom – 22 February 2013
Democracy Debate Around Senate President David Long – 18 February 2013
Bohanon: ‘We Can’t Go Back, Progressives, But It’s OK’ – 11 February 2013
Watts: Right to Record Police Is Right for Indiana – 7 February 2013
A Bipartisan Tax Idea: Let’s Quit Punishing Indiana’s Working Poor – 4 February 2013
Morris: Whatever Happened to that Moratorium on ‘Social’ Issues? – 4 February 2013
Neal: Daniels Sets Sights on Higher-Ed Reform – 4 February 2013
‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne Saved by the Politically Correct? – 30 January 2013
The ‘State of the County’ – 28 January 2013
Neal: ‘Cut Common Core Losses’ – 28 January 2013
Op-Ed: The Governor’s Budget – 23 January 2013
Bohanon: Skills or Sorting — What Do We Do at a University? – 21 January 2013
Keating: ‘The Voluntary (but Tricky) Nature of Taxation’ – 17 January 2013
Indianapolis not Suited for Transit Plan – 14 January 2013
Civil Literacy Should Be on the Pence Agenda – 7 January 2013
Government Rules Trump Beliefs of Indiana Company – 1 January 2013
Bohanon: ‘Water, Diamonds — the Value of College Majors’ – 31 December 2012
The Outstater: Policy Discussion Without the Discussion – 30 December 2012
Indiana Eco-Devo: Progress with Transparency – 30 December 2012
Common Core Standards: Which Way for Indiana? – 26 December 2012
King: The Toll Road: ‘Pay Me Now, Pay Me Later’ – 24 December 2012
Sen. Lugar Solved Problems – 17 December 2012
Bohanon: Competition Aids Clients of Education – 10 December 2012
The Outstater: ‘An Age of Envy’ – 10 December 2012
Schansberg: The ‘Cliffs’ in Two Parts – 10 December 2012
Neal: Lincoln Film Portrays the Politics of Principle – 3 December 2012
Schansberg: ‘The Other America’ Is ‘Coming Apart’ – 27 November 2012
Bohanon: Now to Tax You ‘Rich’ With Minimal Hissing – 26 November 2012
Neal: Voters Didn’t Renounce Education Reform – 19 November 2012
Bohanon: A Drive Down the Center of the Road – 12 November 2012
Watts: A Bad Example for the New Governor – 10 November 2012
Seminar This Friday – 7 November 2012
What’s it Going to Be: Community or Government? – 2 November 2012
Schansberg: The Bull Moose Party and ‘Progressives’ – 31 October 2012
Keating: Monetary Activism and the FED – 30 October 2012
Neal: ‘Daniels Helped State Weather Recession’ – 29 October 2012
Indiana Eco-Devo Groups: The Issue is Transparency – 25 October 2012
Advisory: A Crusade for Eco-Devo Accountability – 24 October 2012
The Promise of Jobs: ‘Right Here in River City’ – 22 October 2012
A ‘Don’t Get Out and Vote’ Campaign – 22 October 2012
A Zoning Kerfuffle: Picking Pockets in Bloomington – 19 October 2012
Eminent Domain: Ahab and Jezebel in Muncie? – 15 October 2012
Affordable and Effective: Reading 20 Minutes a Day – 15 October 2012
Grade Inflation in Indiana Higher Education – 11 October 2012
Bohanon: The Ethical Case for Right-to-Work – 8 October 2012
Schansberg: Social Security and ‘the 47%’ – 1 October 2012
The ‘Chicago Way’ Becomes the ‘Fort Wayne Way’ – 27 September 2012
What Did the Chicago Strike Teach Our Educators? – 24 September 2012
The Outstater: Death by Solipsism – 18 September 2012
Neal: Cutting the Sales Tax Would Be a Better Idea – 17 September 2012
Keating: Parsing Unemployment, Looking for a Cure – 14 September 2012
Bohanon: To Sharpen a Point on the Obama Pencil – 11 September 2012
Neal: Why Women Don’t Run for Political Office – 3 September 2012
Indiana’s Retirement Fund: A Sucker Bet? – 30 August 2012
The Outstater: Conventions and Why Words Matter – 29 August 2012
Neal: A Two-Century Tradition of Negative Attacks – 27 August 2012
The Outstater: ‘Canute, a Man for Our Times’ – 22 August 2012
Bohanon: ‘Kelo in My Backyard’ – 21 August 2012
Inflation Worries? You Can’t Trust the CPI – 20 August 2012
The Olympics: Falling Back to Get Ahead – 15 August 2012
Reforming Child Welfare Isn’t so Easy – 13 August 2012
Convention Centers: Private Sector to the Rescue? – 9 August 2012
BOHANON: Flying the Progressive Skies – 6 August 2012
THE OUTSTATER: Mysology and Tax ‘Changes’ – 1 August 2012
Campus Ethos: Penn State May not Be the End of It – 30 July 2012
NEAL: Child Protection an Issue in Governor’s Race – 30 July 2012
Indiana’s 1816 Constitution Was Better – 27 July 2012
Will Junk Economics Drive the Indiana Chamber? – 26 July 2012
Time for a New Direction in Local Development – 23 July 2012
Common Core Is Heavy on the ‘Common’ – 18 July 2012
NEAL: Daniels’ Successor Has Head Start – 17 July 2012
Vietnam Student Has Advice for Indiana Teachers – 17 July 2012
Multi-Class Basketball: Trophy Welfare – 9 July 2012
Tuesday Lunch: Why an Honest Arbiter Is Important – 2 July 2012
NEAL: Tall Trees and American Exceptionalism – 2 July 2012
BOHANON: Tax Reform Meets the Guy in the Mirror – 24 June 2012
KEATING: A ‘Pretzel Palace’ of Benefits – 20 June 2012
NEAL: Questions Surround ‘Common Core’ – 18 June 2012
‘Lost’ Letters to the Indy Star – 14 June 2012
BOHANON: Top-Down Is not the Way to Fix our Colleges – 11 June 2012
KEATING: A Short Course in ‘Robinson Crusoe Economics’ – 8 June 2012
NEAL: ISTA ‘Crying Wolf’ Over Education Reform – 4 June 2012
The GOP Agenda Meets the Pareto Principle – 30 May 2012
BOHANON: Proud of ‘Liberal’ Indiana – 28 May 2012
Book Review – 23 May 2012
KEATING: Restoring Professionalism to Education – 21 May 2012
The Rabbit Is Eating the Eco-Devo Hat – 18 May 2012
NEAL: Colleges Failing Students in the Liberal Arts – 14 May 2012
Half Past the Month: Indiana’s Elizabethan EcoDevo – 12 May 2012
KEATING: A Reluctance to Punch that Time Clock – 9 May 2012
The Outstater: The IndyStar Fell with Dick Lugar – 8 May 2012
BOHANON: This College Engages Students in Work Experience – 7 May 2012
BROWN: A Primer on Indiana Local Government – 2 May 2012
Letters to the Editors: Hooray for the New Newsroom Sweatshops – 2 May 2012
NEAL | The Lugar-Mourdock Race: A Test of the ‘Divisive Effect’? – 1 May 2012
Yes, Mayor Ballard, but Are We ‘Sustainable’ Culturally? – 23 April 2012
2012 Election Will Determine ‘Bicentennial Governor’ – 16 April 2012
Titanic Tax Policy: Will April 15th Sink Us? – 12 April 2012
Letters to the Editors: A New Indy Star? – 10 April 2012
A Direct Way to Fight Poverty – 9 April 2012
Indiana’s Jobless Recover; Sticky Wages and the Tax Wedge – 9 April 2012
College Tuition: Higher than a Dave Matthews Concert – 6 April 2012
Collegiate Castes: Mind the Quality Gap – 3 April 2012
‘Feckless’ Men and our Future – 28 March 2012
All-Boys Charter Sets Educational First – 19 March 2012
Charles Murray, Meet the Bard of Avon – 12 March 2012
Letters to the Editors: 2012 General Assembly – 11 March 2012
Letter to the Editors: Sex Offender Geography – 6 March 2012
Online Learning Has its Limits – 5 March 2012
Lugar Is the Definition of Hoosier – 27 February 2012
Blinded by Science – 20 February 2012
The Death Knell for ‘No Child Left Behind’ – 13 February 2012
Leadership by What Works – 9 February 2012
Super Bowl Costs: Will We Ever Know? – 7 February 2012
Right-to-Work and the Super Bowl: A Better Case – 4 February 2012
Romney, Buffett and Tax Rates – 3 February 2012
The Last Ordinary American: A Eulogy – 31 January 2012
Mass Transit: Time for a Reality Check – 30 January 2012
Outstater: Veterans Day – 26 January 2012
Letter: Daniels Response to the State of the Union – 26 January 2012
Hoosier Jobs: It’s Productivity, Stupid – 22 January 2012
Can We ‘Handle the Truth’ About Cost Overruns? – 20 January 2012
Narcissistic Journalism – 17 January 2012
Year-Round University Good for Parents and Taxpayers – 16 January 2012
Letters to the Legislators: ‘An Un-Thanks’ – 12 January 2012
Is Rube Goldberg Managing State Pension Funds? – 11 January 2012
One Man’s List of Government Disasters – 9 January 2012
Outstater: Madarins ‘of the First Pin’ – 6 January 2012
The Right-to-Work Debate: ‘Devil at Our Doorstep’ – 3 January 2012
2012 Resolution: No More ‘Pork’ – 2 January 2012
A Case Study in Competitiveness: Ask Albert Pujols to Mow Your Lawn – 31 December 2011
Gambling: An Institutional Disaster – 27 December 2011
Smoking: An Issue of Freedom and Personal Responsibility – 23 December 2011
Lit Up for the Holidays? CF, Diode or Incandescent? – 23 December 2011
School-Board Change Is First Step to Reform – 19 December 2011
No, Mayor Ballard, There Is No Such Thing as Mass Transit – 19 December 2011
Indy Transit Task Force Misses the Mark – 19 December 2011
Daniels’ Anti-Legacy – 12 December 2011
The Occupiers, the Tea Party Both Have a Point About the Fed – 12 December 2011
Crony Capitalism: Tax Beak Redux? – 6 December 2011
When Feds Spend Highway Money, Taxpayers Get Fleeced – 5 December 2011
The Cyber Tax: Right Nail but Wrong Hammer – 1 December 2011
The Fiction of the Legislature – 30 November 2011
Decades of Hoosier School Choice Threatened by Unions – 28 November 2011
Daniels’ Legacy: Infrastructure – 28 November 2011
Lunch Downtown: Chewing on the Big Lie – 28 November 2011
The Irrelevant Dramatics of the ‘Super Committee’ – 22 November 2011
Some Food for Thought on Thanksgiving Giving – 19 November 2011
No Place for Cowards in Right-to-Work Debate – 14 November 2011
The Indiana GOP’s ‘Issue Problem’ – 14 November 2011
Christmas Trees and Crony Capitalism – 10 November 2011
Please Vote — Or Don’t – 6 November 2011
Are Superintendents Greedy or Just Over Regulated? – 2 November 2011
Indiana Election Fraud: Is Corruption Contagious? – 31 October 2011
Teaching Cats to Bark: A Do-Nothing Legislature – 30 October 2011
Do We Need the Post Office? – 27 October 2011
Designing a ‘Fair’ Tax (2 of 2) – 20 October 2011
On Tax Fairness (1 of 2) – 20 October 2011
Indiana Is the Land of the Free — If Your Neighbor Approves – 19 October 2011
Inconvenient Facts About Indiana Tax Revenue – 19 October 2011
A Sorely Needed Tutorial on Business and Capitalism – 19 October 2011
A Politician Who Hires People With His Own Money – 19 October 2011
Daniels PR Machine Backfires – 17 October 2011
Property Rights in the Dock: Siwinskis vs. Ogden Dunes – 17 October 2011
Were the Founders Soft on Cursive? – 17 October 2011
Indy Street Lights Still Burning – 17 October 2011
Scoring the Indiana Chamber – 9 October 2011
Election Law ‘Slipped By’ GOP Leadership – 3 October 2011
‘Like a Business’ — Really? – 27 September 2011
‘Let ‘m Die’ Debate Explicated – 19 September 2011
Civic Education: Cynicism’s Cure – 19 September 2011
The Colts Won’t Make Us Rich – 17 September 2011
Less Government Spending Can Boost Growth and Jobs – 1 September 2011
Cursive: It’s About More Than Writing – 22 August 2011
It’s All About Reading at ‘Third Grade Academy’ – 15 August 2011
Half a Job Is Better Than None at All – 7 August 2011
Right-to-Work States Have the Edge – 1 August 2011
It Is Far Past Time to Extend Debt Ceiling – 25 July 2011
Debt Crises: Opportunity for a Balanced Budget – 18 July 2011
A ‘Proposal’ to Change Higher Education – 18 July 2011
A Short Course on Public Debt – 11 July 2011
A Bicentennial Chance to Spotlight Indiana – 4 July 2011
Federal Aid for the Indy Star? – 27 June 2011
Will Indiana Lose its Male Workers? – 13 June 2011
Police Entry: Rehearing Doubtful – 6 June 2011
Grade Inflation: Diamonds or Rhinestones – 28 May 2011
No Way to Pick a President – 23 May 2011
The Colts and Zimbabwean Eco-Devo – 18 May 2011
Indiana Textbook Reform – 9 May 2011
This Recession’s Innocents – 9 May 2011
Now Indiana Schools Can Change – 25 April 2011
TIFs: Mr. Daniels, Meet Mr. Brown – 20 April 2011
Vouchers not so Free-Market – 11 April 2011
Does the ISTA Have a Case? – 3 April 2011
The GOP’s Redistricting Choice – 29 March 2011
Economists Make Everyone Mad – 23 March 2011
Are Voters Ready for Mitch’s ‘Tough Love’? – 14 March 2011
Half Past the Month: Commentary Against Commentary – 7 March 2011
We Should Have Broken the Union – 7 March 2011
A Pandemic of Political Missteps – 28 February 2011
A Crisis in the GOP Leadership – 24 February 2011
Here Come the ‘Union’ Protests – 22 February 2011
BACKGROUNDER: Article 8 and our ‘Common’ Schools – 15 February 2011
Keeping Union Ballots Secret – 15 February 2011
The Case for Mandatory Liquor ID Checks – 14 February 2011
Cummins Testimony – 13 February 2011
To Those Who Would Be King – 7 February 2011
Redevelopment: New Rules? – 1 February 2011
BACKGROUNDER: Union PLAs – 28 January 2011
Religious Freedom Isn’t Free – 24 January 2011
Evaluating Indiana Lawmakers – 17 January 2011
Indiana’s GOP: Is it Roll-Back Time? – 10 January 2011
The Essential Constitution – 5 January 2011
The Coming Union Crisis – 27 December 2010
A Sure-Fire Plan to Lower Spending – 20 December 2010
Picnics and Property Rights – 20 December 2010
Indiana’s Envy Tax – 13 December 2010
The Recession: A Hoosier Feminist Rethinks it All – 6 December 2010
A Chance to Be an Education Leader – 6 December 2010
Unions and Indiana Cities – 2 December 2010
To Improve Schools, Raise Standards for Teachers – 22 November 2010
Government Unions 101 – 15 November 2010
Give the Best Teachers More Money – 8 November 2010
The Dems Lost but Who Won? – 3 November 2010
‘For the Kids’ Is Deceptive – 1 November 2010
Voters Face a Barrage of Negative Ads – 25 October 2010
‘Make a Difference Day” — Really? – 17 October 2010
Voters: Go and Gerrymander no More – 11 October 2010
The Yuan and Indiana Jobs – 4 October 2010
Tax Caps Aren’t to Blame for Local Woes.jap – 27 September 2010
A Government of Unions – 20 September 2010
Turnout Will Be Decisive Nov. 2.jap – 13 September 2010
Australia, Indiana and the Internet.jap – 7 September 2010
World to End: Editorial Writers Hit Hardest.jap – 30 August 2010
Wind Power: Verdict Is Pending.jap – 30 August 2010
Nobody Here but Us Reformers.jap – 24 August 2010
Making a Constitutional Splash.jap – 24 August 2010
Why Townships Matter – 10 August 2010
Let’s Embrace (Not Fear) On-Line Learning – 2 August 2010
Photo Economics: The Power of Property – 31 July 2010
Subsidized Journalism? Not Funny – 20 July 2010
Principals’ Academy Pushes for Radical Change – 19 July 2010
Soccer Hype Hid Flaws of New South Africa – 12 July 2010
‘Voter ID’ Is Hardly a Civil-Rights Matter – 6 July 2010
‘Advanced Placement’ Deserves Scrutiny – 21 June 2010
Indiana Manufacturing After the Recession – 16 June 2010
Flag Day OK, Allegiance Not So Much – 11 June 2010
Who Should Pick Judges: People or Officials? – 8 June 2010
It’s Memorial Day, not Sacrifice Day – 31 May 2010
Education Standards: Amusement, Angst – 24 May 2010
What if the Colts Were Run Like our Schools? – 18 May 2010
Governor Heads Push for Tax Amendment – 10 May 2010
Journalism: Backing Away from the Gates – 5 May 2010
Indiana Cities: September Bankruptcies? – 5 May 2010
A Post-Primary Look at Indiana’s Prospects – 3 May 2010
The FED, Interest Rates and Hoosier Bicycles – 27 April 2010
Lying and Stealing our Way to a Census – 22 April 2010
Gun Laws: Who’s Afraid of Paul Helmke? – 5 April 2010
It’s Never ‘Too Late’ for Redistricing Reform – 29 March 2010
The Governor’s ‘Press Release’ Economics – 25 March 2010
Neighborhoods Battling Alcohol Permits Have an Uphill Fight – 16 March 2010
A Failed Session : Politicians Come and Go but Public Employees Rule – 8 March 2010
Indiana Alcohol Regulations Are in a State of Confusion – 3 March 2010
Hatian Property Laws: Sowing and Reaping Devastation – 24 February 2010
Anti-Incumbent Mood Still a Factor in U.S. Senate Race – 15 February 2010
State Pensions Built on Rosy Expectations – 8 February 2010
Third Grade Too Late to Fix Reading Woes – 1 February 2010
Tiger Woods: A Trophy of Radical Feminism? – 25 January 2010
Indiana Must Plan Now for a Quality Bicentennial – 18 January 2010
Parrot Soup and the GOP Dilemma – 12 January 2010
It’s Now or Never for Three Legislative Priorities – 4 January 2010
The Vat: Politically Determined Consumption? – 28 December 2009
‘Thinking Differently’ About Public Schools – 20 December 2009
‘Tis the Season of Institutionalized Envy – 15 December 2009
Let’s Get Heritage Agency in Place Quickly – 7 December 2009
Win-Win Solutions for a ‘New Indiana City’ – 30 November 2009
Giving Thanks for Indiana’s Natural Wonders – 23 November 2009
Shifting Money into the Classroom – 19 November 2009
Direct Democarcy Generates Sound Policy – 9 November 2009
Sacrifice or Duty — One Vets Distinction – 4 November 2009
Ex-OMB Deputy: Stimulus a ‘Charade’ – 2 November 2009
Property Taxes Are Back in the News as Bills Arrive – 26 October 2009
Are Aspirations for Education Too big for Our Pocketbooks? – 19 October 2009
Responsibility Means More Indians, Fewer Chiefs – 19 October 2009
Gambling at a Crossroads as Lottery Marks 20th Anniversary – 12 October 2009
Wages, Sex and Parity in Indiana – 9 October 2009
The Revenue Forecast: ‘Close Enough for Government Work’ – 9 October 2009
Taking a Day Off From Buying Booze – 28 September 2009
Health Care Reform and the New Eugenics – 25 September 2009
Hard Times Make a Good Argument – 21 September 2009
Thoughts at a Hoosier Roadblock – 16 September 2009
Rokita Offers Sound Plan for Mapping Democracy – 14 September 2009
Government Health Care? Why not Try Something Different? – 7 September 2009
Historians Find Lessons in 1918 Flu Epidemic – 3 September 2009
The Townhalls: They’re not Waving, They’re Drowning – 3 September 2009
Civility Is More Than a Strategy: the Importance of Editors – 26 August 2009
A Steady Job as an Education Priority – 25 August 2009
Tax Cap Issue to Get Genuine, Grass-Roots Airing – 17 August 2009
The ‘Angry White Man’ Meets Healthcare Reform – 13 August 2009
A better Way to Buy Health Care: How Would You Like a $2 Pizza? – 10 August 2009
State Makes a Sound Move to Boost Teaching Credentials – 3 August 2009
Discrimination Is All Around Us: The Case of Gates and Crowley – 27 July 2009
Soldier Laments Society’s ‘Pop Pablum’ Appetite – 20 July 2009
The Inscrutable Statehouse – 11 July 2009
Hard Times Call for Tuition Freeze at Public Universities – 7 July 2009
What if They Gave a Health-Care Seminar and Nobody Came? – 29 June 2009
On the Economics of Earmarking: A Case of Mixed Emotions – 29 June 2009
SPECIAL: High Speed Rail Is Just High-Speed Spending – 24 June 2009
In the Capital City, Tension Over Use of the Public Square – 22 June 2009
Dear Senator Boxer . . . – 19 June 2009
The Inheritance Tax: Envy Institutionalized – 15 June 2009
The Governor’s Apology: Mea Culpa or Ploy? – 10 June 2009
Governor’s Budget Comes Close to Being Painless – 8 June 2009
‘Perfect Storm’ in Education Will Hit Indiana in Three Years – 1 June 2009
Incentive Pay Shows Promise for Boosting Test Scores – 25 May 2009
Economics 101: Now Is a Good Time to Bone Up – 18 May 2009
After Property Tax Reform, Chaos Still Rules for Many – 11 May 2009
Scorn for Big-Box Stores Makes the Needy Needier – 4 May 2009
Congressmen or Pirates? Choose Carefully, Me Hearties – 29 April 2009
Budget Wrangling in the Session’s Last Hours – 26 April 2009
Indiana Has Lost its Economic Touch – 20 April 2009
Taxing the Poor: What’s Missing on Your Pay Stub – 13 April 2009
Five Good Reasons to Be Mad About Taxes – 13 April 2009
Boosterish Indy Media Let Readers Down on Sports Financing – 6 April 2009
Lawmakers to Higher Ed: ‘Just Say No’ – 1 April 2009
‘Stimulus’ Is Anything but Manna From Heaven – 23 March 2009
Indiana Lags in Government Transparency Efforts – 16 March 2009
Capped and Gowned CEOs Escape Salary Scrutiny – 9 March 2009
Voters Deserve Final Say on Pricey Construction Projects – 2 March 2009
Local Government Consolidation: An ‘Embarrassing’ Position – 23 February 2009
The Tax Caps Would Be a Useful Economic Stimulus – 16 February 2009
Indiana’s Share of the ‘Stimulus’: Will Lemons Become Lemonade? – 9 February 2009
Successful Charters Have ‘College Prep’ Focus in Common – 2 February 2009
Consolidation: Few Facts but Lots of Name-Calling – 26 January 2009
Trustees and Consolidation: Doubtful Savings, Real Costs – 23 January 2009
Indiana Charter Students Showing Achievement Gains – 19 January 2009
The Year of the Narcissist (or Why We Can’t Dance) – 10 January 2009
Finding Ways to Drive Dollars into Indiana Classrooms – 28 December 2008
ISTEP Scores: It Depends on How you Look at Them – 22 December 2008
Let’s Stop Throwing Good Education Money After Bad – 15 December 2008
Markets and Gas Prices? He Told You So — $1.80 Ago – 8 December 2008
Guidelines for Indiana Legislators: No New Taxes, No New Spending – 1 December 2008
Taxing Seed Corn — or the ‘Bailout’ Comes to Indiana – 23 November 2008
Why not Trust the Voters on Tax Cap? – 17 November 2008
What Do Politicians Mean by “Courage”? – 11 November 2008
The Bush Legacy: The Federalization of America – 3 November 2008
“Joe the Plumber” Goes to College – 27 October 2008
Casting Ballots With an Eye on the Next Generation – 20 October 2008
The New (Old) Corruption – 13 October 2008
Is This the Year of the Disgruntled Voter? – 6 October 2008
A Public-Private Partnership Gone Bad – 29 September 2008
Property Tax Reform: Constitutional Amendment or Not? – 22 September 2008
An Alaskan Model for Hoosier Reform – 15 September 2008
State School Candidates: Cautious, Optimistic – 9 September 2008
The Presidential Race: Another Lost Opportunity for Education Reform? – 1 September 2008
Taxpayers’ Lament: Where’s Our Money? – 25 August 2008
It’s The Accountability, Stupid – 19 August 2008
The Crime of Corporate Social Responsibility – 28 July 2008
Long-Term Property Tax Solution Is Not Yet in Sight – 21 July 2008
The Virtues of Contrary Voting – 14 July 2008
Rebates, Reconciliations Add to Tax Confusion – 7 July 2008
Property Tax Relief Is Anything but Certain – 30 June 2008
We’re All Winners of the Telecom Wars – 23 June 2008
Indiana’s New Video Marketplace: Capitalizing on Competition – 16 June 2008
Lincoln Collection Has a Good Shot at Staying in Indiana – 9 June 2008
Christians in Politics or Politics in Christians? – 2 June 2008
Part 5 | A Movement to Make College More Accountable – 23 May 2008
Part 4 | Colleges Padding Budgets with Fees and Surpluses – 18 May 2008
Part 3 | Debt Service Is Consuming More Education Dollars – 11 May 2008
Part 2 | Financial Aid Is Godsend for Some but Boosts Price for Others – 5 May 2008
Part 1 | As Tuition and Fees Rise, More Students Take out High-Interest Loans – 28 April 2008
Yes, Indy Schools Are Broken, But They’re Not the Only Ones – 21 April 2008
Consolidation Is No Way to Streamline Government – 14 April 2008
Need Some Good Economic News: Deregulation Creates Indiana Jobs – 7 April 2008
Do Our Politicians Have ‘Hometowns’? – 27 March 2008
Come May 6, What’s a Republican to Do? – 24 March 2008
Here’s a Bolder Neighborhood Housing Plan – 17 March 2008
Indiana Is Ready to Party but Can We Save the Lincoln Collection? – 11 March 2008
Drug-Enhanced Baseball, Hoosier Basketball and March Madness – 10 March 2008
EcoDevo vs. Deregulation: Close to a Free Lunch – 3 March 2008
Dysfunction in House Threatens Property Tax Reform – 25 February 2008
Property Taxes: Try to Reform or Hope to Repeal? – 18 February 2008
Pence Swims Upstream Against Earmarks – 11 February 2008
The Special-Ed Bureaucracy Morphs into ‘The Blob’ – 4 February 2008
Property Taxes: What Does the Constitution Say? – 4 February 2008
Trust the People on School Building Projects – 28 January 2008
The Wages of Big Government Are High Taxes – 21 January 2008
Killing Property Tax Could Backfire on Hoosiers – 14 January 2008
Reform Is the Silver Lining of School Consolidation – 7 January 2008
Lawmakers Should Fear Voters’ Wrath – 31 December 2007
School Competition Saves: Consolidation Doesn’t (3rd of 4 parts) – 23 December 2007
Hoosier Eugenics: Past or Prologue? – 17 December 2007
Confessions of a Hoosier Exporter-Importer – 10 December 2007
Don’t Blame Child Welfare System for TaJanay’s Death – 2 December 2007
Gov. Daniels’ School Bond Reform: Will it Matter? – 26 November 2007
Elections Revive Electoral College Debate – 19 November 2007
Education Reform That Actually Works (2nd of 4 parts) – 12 November 2007
Let’s Limit State Spending as Well as Property Taxes – 5 November 2007
Nobel Peace Prize: Why Not Lugar? – 22 October 2007
Scores Rise When Teachers, Principals Lead (1st of 4 parts) – 15 October 2007
Academic and Economic Benefits of Later School Start – 8 October 2007
An Economic Lesson From the Ball Brothers – 1 October 2007
Reauthorizing NCLB May Be Exercise in Futility – 24 September 2007
Hoosier Profs Explicate Custer’s Last Stand – 17 September 2007
Indiana’s Foreclosure Rate and What to Do About It – 10 September 2007
Funding Challenges Hinder Charters From the Get-Go (2nd of 2 parts) – 2 September 2007
How Not to Quit Smoking: A Critique of ‘Quit 2 Win’ – 27 August 2007
Progress Report: Five Years of Data Affirm Charter Schools’ Worth (1st of 2 parts) – 20 August 2007
Indiana Tax Reform: History and Solution – 13 August 2007
It’s Time for All Government to Spend Less – 6 August 2007
Local Government Has Sunk the Property-Tax Boat – 30 July 2007
Indiana’s Taxpayer Revolt: Don’t Stop Just Yet – 23 July 2007
Indiana Tax Policy: A Government Against Us – 16 July 2007
Indiana’s Property Tax System: Fix it or Scrap it? – 16 July 2007
Where’s the Property Tax Cap We Were Promised? – 11 July 2007
Are High Taxes Restricting Indiana’s Growth? – 9 July 2007
Violence Is Focal Point of Indy Mayoral Race – 25 June 2007
Don’t Drink (Milk) and Drive It’s Too Expensive – 18 June 2007
Refiner Profits and Indiana Gas Prices – 11 June 2007
Immigration: Senator Lugar Owes Us an Accounting – 4 June 2007
Civic Education Scores Remain Stagnant – 29 May 2007
A Tale of Two Indiana Election Days – 14 May 2007
Outlawing Tornados And Other Governmental Folly – 7 May 2007
Privatization Not at Fault in Prison Disturbance – 30 April 2007
Indiana Charter Schools: A Status Report – 23 April 2007
Lawmakers Should Face This Fact: Hoosier Tax Burden Is Rising – 16 April 2007
Will This Be a Silent Spring? The Death of Two Robins – 9 April 2007
Ethanol Boom Helps Indiana, But at What Price? – 3 April 2007
Will Your School Corporation’s Debt Exceed Capacity? – 25 March 2007
Indiana not a Player in Presidential Picking Season – 19 March 2007
The Weighted Student Formula: Is There a Better Way to Fund Indiana Education? – 12 March 2007
The Slippery Slope of Curriculum Mandates – 5 March 2007
Full-Day Kindergarten: Is it Worth the Money? – 26 February 2007
A Chance to Improve Reading Instruction – 19 February 2007
Indiana Education: What’s Got to Change – 12 February 2007
Public School Funding in Indiana: Are We Spending Enough? – 12 February 2007
Contracting Out Lottery Would Bring Risk With Reward – 5 February 2007
Xenophobia and Indiana Privatization – 29 January 2007
Indiana Has Enough Slot Machines Already – 21 January 2007
A Short History of Health Care: Let Doctors Be Doctors – 15 January 2007
The Strange Politics of the 2007 Legislature – 8 January 2007
When Cities Get Into the Hotel Business: A Labor Ultimatum – 22 May 1990

Indiana Writers Group Archive

Beyond License Plates: Prepping Inmates for Life After Prison – 24 July 2006
Low Prices or High Prices: We Can’t Have it Both Ways – 17 July 2006
Targeting Freshmen on Path to Dropping Out – 10 July 2006
The Privatization of the Toll Road: A Bottom-Line Assessment – 3 July 2006
Series: Giving Up on Geyer, a School That Couldn’t Be Fixed – 30 May 2006
Immigration: Tomatoes Aren’t Free – 22 May 2006
Down on the Farm (Subsidies) in Indiana – 15 May 2006
Indiana Voters Are Deciding Enough Is Enough – 8 May 2006
Irony in Intelligent Design – 2 May 2006
Another Misguided Attempt at Making all Things Equal – 24 April 2006
Every Payday Is Tax Day – 13 April 2006
Graduation Day: Voter Cards With Diplomas – 10 April 2006
Hoosier Oranges: Economics Is More Than Counting Jobs – 29 March 2006
Pence: A Lonesome Voice Against Spending – 29 March 2006
Newspaper Economics 101 – 19 March 2006
Indy Superintendent Sets High Goals – 12 March 2006
A Simpson-Watcher Assesses Our Constitutional Literacy – 5 March 2006
Major Moves: All the Benefits and Almost no Risk – 26 February 2006
Parole, Probation and Pollution in Muncie – 22 February 2006
Culture in the Cornfields – 12 February 2006
Can They Take the Evansville Shrine? – 5 February 2006
Crafting a Slogan to Sell Indiana – 5 February 2006
I Wish They Just Wanted the Money – 23 January 2006
Momentum Building to Eliminate Township Assessors – 15 January 2006
Who Are the Losers in Indiana’s Closed Shop? – 9 January 2006
ISTEP Debate Returns for 2006 – 1 January 2006
Fathers Are Invisible in Discussion of Child Care – 25 December 2005
Society’s Love-Hate Relationship with Christmas – 19 December 2005
Eminent Domain Bill Will Protect Against Abuse – 11 December 2005
Evolution: Science, Religion, Economics – 11 December 2005
BMV Philosophy: Customer to Come First – 4 December 2005
Hostettler at Eye of Gay-Marriage Storm – 4 December 2005
God’s Starring Role on Thanksgiving – 4 December 2005
Focus Should Shift From Testing to Teaching – 4 December 2005
Budget Woes Trump Property Tax Issues – 4 December 2005
It’s Your Patriotic Duty: Work the Polls – 4 December 2005
Let’s Stop Enabling Teen Alcohol Use – 4 December 2005
Constitutionality of Textbook Rental Fee – 4 December 2005
Surveying the Damage Caused by Gambling Dependence – 4 December 2005
Character First in Casino Decision – 4 December 2005
Ah, the Power of Government – 4 December 2005
Republican Platform an Exercise in not Offending – 4 December 2005
Lend us Your Ear on Property Taxes – 4 December 2005
Twenty Lashes for Kernan, Daniels and Miller – 4 December 2005
Update: Letting Sunlight in on Child Protection – 4 December 2005
HoosierRx a National Model – 4 December 2005
Change-Wary Hoosiers Break the Mold – 4 December 2005
Tindley School to Be an Indiana First – 4 December 2005
Bold Vision Needed for Education Platform – 4 December 2005
In Indiana, It’s Still the Economy – 4 December 2005
Income Tax, Property Tax or “None of the Above?” – 4 December 2005
Do-nothing Session Was a Blessing – 4 December 2005
Time to Shake Up Educational Apple Cart – 4 December 2005
At Last: HB 1008 Offers Foundation for Tax Reform – 4 December 2005
A Day to Honor a few Great Men – 4 December 2005
Reinventing Government: The Next Governor – 4 December 2005
The Risky Business of Car Cell Phones – 4 December 2005
Rebuild FSSA From Scratch – 4 December 2005
Ball State Charters Meeting Diverse Need – 4 December 2005
Gov. Kernan Needs Fiscal Reality Check – 4 December 2005
Orange County Citizens to Cast Vote on Their Future – 4 December 2005
More Mayors Need Chartering Authority – 4 December 2005
For Property Tax Heartburn, Tums or Pepcid AC? – 4 December 2005
Cynical Electorate not Showing at the Polls – 4 December 2005
The Right Way to Do a Pay Raise – 4 December 2005
Finding Truth Amidst the Mudslinging – 4 December 2005
Living a Life of Service – 4 December 2005
Republican Leaders Will Have to Say No And Mean It – 4 December 2005
Tackling Indiana”s Obesity Epidemic – 4 December 2005
Property Taxes: Avoid the Quick Fix – 4 December 2005
Curfew Ruling a Blow to Parents – 4 December 2005
Phonics Instruction Is Bearing Fruit – 4 December 2005
Give Summer Back to Indiana Youngsters – 4 December 2005
Teaching a Humbling Experience for Novice – 4 December 2005
When it Comes to High Schools, Big May not Be Better – 4 December 2005
Advice for Indiana’s Candidates for Governor – 4 December 2005
The Need to Deter Uninsured Motorists – 4 December 2005
Advice to Lawmakers: First, Do no Harm – 4 December 2005
Nothing to Fear From Full Disclosure – 4 December 2005
What Every Child Should Know About America – 4 December 2005
Meth Epidemic Proving Costly to Indiana – 4 December 2005
Update: Reassessment a Disaster in Many Ways – 4 December 2005

Indiana Writers Group Section

Bohanon: To Sharpen a Point on the Obama Pencil – 11 September 2012
Neal: Why Women Don’t Run for Political Office – 3 September 2012
The GOP Agenda Meets the Pareto Principle – 30 May 2012

IPR Home

THIS WEEK – 9 May 2007
This Week’s Column – 7 March 2006
Evan Bayh Reads the Indiana Policy Review – COPY – 4 December 2005

Uncategorized

‘Hometown’ Politicians – 28 September 2026
Franke: The Declaration as a War Cry – 28 September 2026
The Eyes of the Beholders – 21 September 2026
McGowan: AI Doesn’t Know Baseball – 19 September 2026
The Amish-Muslim Contradiction – 16 September 2026
Eichenberger: How We Lost Limited Government – 16 September 2026
Don’t Worry, Socialists Aren’t Really Socialists – 15 September 2026
Franke: Constitution Day 2026 – 14 September 2026
Eichenberger: Flock Cameras in Perspective – 13 September 2026
McGowan: A Colin Kaepernick Refresher – 13 September 2026
The Way to Remember 9/11 – 11 September 2026
Is the GOP Ready for War? – 11 September 2026
Eichenberger: The Corruption of Equity – 1 September 2026
Mercantilism: Is it Local, Is it Logical? – 15 February 2012
Indy’s Super Bowl: Another Potemkin Project? – 2 January 2012
Prezi – 28 August 2011
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, 2010 – 14 September 2010
Complete Checkout – 29 September 2008
Cancel Checkout – 29 September 2008
Indiana Writers Group – 11 December 2005

Journals

Fall 2026 – 10 September 2026
Summer 2026 – 2 July 2026
Spring 2026 – 11 May 2026
Winter 2026 – 11 February 2026
Fall 2025 – 11 October 2025
Summer 2025 – 11 July 2025
Spring 2025 – 11 April 2025
Winter 2025 – 1 January 2025
Fall 2024 – 1 October 2024
Summer 2024 – 1 July 2024
Spring 2024 – 1 April 2024
Winter 2024 – 1 January 2024
Fall 2023 – 1 October 2023
Summer 2023 – 1 July 2023
Spring 2023 – 1 April 2023
Winter 2023 – 1 January 2023
Fall 2022 – 1 October 2022
Summer 2022 – 1 July 2022
Spring 2022 – 1 April 2022
Winter 2022 – 1 January 2022
Fall 2021 – 1 October 2021
Summer 2021 – 1 July 2021
Spring 2021 – 1 April 2021
Winter 2021 – 1 January 2021
Fall 2020 – 1 October 2020
Summer 2020 – 1 July 2020
Spring 2020 – 1 April 2020
Winter 2020 – 1 January 2020
Fall 2019 – 1 October 2019
Summer 2019 – 1 July 2019
Spring 2019 – 1 April 2019
Winter 2019 – 1 January 2019
Fall 2018 – 1 October 2018
Summer 2018 – 1 July 2018
Spring 2018 – 1 April 2018
Winter 2018 – 1 January 2018
Fall 2017 – 1 October 2017
Summer 2017 – 1 July 2017
Spring 2017 – 1 April 2017
Winter 2017 – 1 January 2017
Fall 2016 – 1 October 2016
Summer 2016 – 1 July 2016
Spring 2016 – 1 April 2016
Winter 2016 – 1 January 2016
Fall 2015 – 1 October 2015
Summer 2015 – 1 July 2015
Spring 2015 – 1 April 2015
Winter 2015 – 1 January 2015
Fall 2014 – 1 October 2014
Summer 2014 – 1 July 2014
Spring 2014 – 1 April 2014
Winter 2014 – 1 January 2014
Fall 2013 – 1 October 2013
Summer 2013 – 1 July 2013
Spring 2013 – 1 April 2013
Winter 2013 – 1 January 2013
Fall 2012 – 1 October 2012
Spring 2012 – 1 April 2012
Special Winter 2012 – 1 February 2012
Winter 2012 – 1 January 2012
Fall 2011 – 1 October 2011
Summer 2011 – 1 July 2011
Spring 2011 – 1 April 2011
Winter 2011 – 1 January 2011
Fall 2010 – 1 October 2010
Summer 2010 – 1 July 2010
Spring 2010 – 1 April 2010
Winter 2010 – 1 January 2010
Spring-Summer 2009 – 15 May 2009
Fall-Winter 2008 – 15 November 2008
Summer 2008 – 1 July 2008
Spring 2008 – 1 April 2008
Winter 2008 – 1 January 2008
Fall 2007 – 1 October 2007
Summer 2007 – 1 July 2007
Spring 2007 – 1 April 2007
Winter 2007 – 1 January 2007
Fall 2006 – 1 October 2006
Summer 2006 – 1 July 2006
Spring 2006 – 1 April 2006
Winter 2006 – 1 January 2006
Fall 2005 – 1 October 2005
Summer 2005 – 1 July 2005
Spring 2005 – 1 April 2005
Winter 2005 – 1 January 2005
Summer/Fall 2004 – 15 August 2004

Announcements

Post-Midterm Colloquy – 28 September 2026
Welcome to the new inpolicy.org – 11 September 2026