Morton Marcus: Reinvigorating Indiana
My homily last week may have disturbed some loyal Hoosiers.
Here was a foreigner, one who did not attend an Indiana high school, challenging a...
David Carlson: Bridging the gulf between us
“Physician, heal thyself.”
“Teacher, teach thyself.”
These two phrases came to mind last week after I finished preparing a talk that I’ve been invited to give...
Dick Wolfsie: Tech wreck
Many technological advances in the world have stumped me over the past couple of decades.
In each of the next few weeks, I will revisit...
Immigrants chase the American Dream ‘In the Heights’
Years before “Hamilton” debuted, it was a musical titled “In the Heights” that introduced the world to its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. It was his...
Kelly Hawes: ‘Academic concept’ makes people mad
Fox News star Tucker Carlson calls it a cult. Will Cain, co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend, calls it “modern-day Jim Crow.”
Newt Gingerich says...
Leo Morris: Crime: An outrage or a mere problem?
One day last week, an 82-year-old woman named Wilma Ball was stabbed to death in her home at Lake James. According to a sheriff’s...
Celebrating good times sandwiched between hard times
Although family humor writers primarily write lighthearted stories, surely readers know that our family experiences the same difficulties, setbacks and sorrows as everyone else.
We...
Norman Knight: Goodbye, June
Goodbye, June. Thirty days hath September, April, November and you, who, after today, must now leave us.
Goodbye, June, to your days of sweet, not-yet-sweltering...
Larry DeBoer: What kind of inflation problem do we have?
We’ve got an inflation problem. What should we do about it? That depends on what kind of inflation problem we’ve got.
In May the consumer...
Michael Hicks: School choice, cost savings and educational spending
My colleague Dagney Faulk and I recently completed an analysis of the fiscal effect of school choice on Indiana taxpayers. The data came from...