Krull Commentary: Resistance, reckoning and history’s demands
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 29, 2025 COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The past makes demands. It demands acknowledgment. It demands accountability. It demands a commitment to the truth. This is the overarching l “...”
Krull Commentary: Braun, Beckwith and the wisdom of Will Rogers
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 26, 2025 The early 20th-century cowboy comedian and philosopher Will Rogers once delivered a great droll joke. “I am not a member of any organized political party,” Rog “...”
Krull Commentary: Books and the great deep dark world
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 24, 2025 PRAGUE, Czech Republic—Outside, the fog and mist hover, making the lights of this old city shimmer wetly over the cobblestones, turrets and rooftops in the night “...”
Krull Commentary: A Trump by any other name
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 22, 2025 So, President Donald Trump wants to have his name attached to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His minions already have added Trump’s name to “...”
Krull Commentary: Opera, passion and the river of time
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 19, 2025 VIENNA, Austria—The crowd traipses into the old opera house as the orchestra continues warming up. Ladies of mature vintage cloaked in elegant gowns and shimmeri “...”
Krull Commentary: The big thing the Trump crowd doesn’t get
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 17, 2025 There’s something that President Donald Trump just doesn’t grasp. Neither does Vice President JD Vance. Or Gov. Mike Braun. Or Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. Or so m “...”
Krull Commentary: Redistricting dies, the republic lives
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 12, 2025 In the end, it wasn’t even close. When President Donald Trump’s determined and deluded campaign to redistrict Indiana’s congressional maps in the middle of a “...”
Krull Commentary: Indiana’s Trump-directed flights from reality
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 10, 2025 Power grabs are always exercises in absurdity—gross attempts to justify the unjustifiable in defense of a nakedly self-serving goal. The current attempt by Presi “...”
Krull Commentary: A tale full of sound and fury
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 5, 2025 So many idiocies abound. And there is so little time to point them out. The Indiana House of Representatives adopted its ill-conceived plan to redistrict the state “...”
Krull Commentary: Decency takes a stand
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 1, 2025 Sometimes, basic decency asserts itself in unexpected places. Sometimes, it even trumps ideology and partisanship. In the past few days, two Indiana state senators “...”