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 “...”
Hicks Commentary: Art Laffer and Karl Marx remembered for being wrong
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J. Hicks December 14, 2025 American economics departments don’t teach Karl Marx or Arthur Laffer for the same reason: their economi “...”
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 “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Onward ‘Christian’ Soldiers
This column was originally publish by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy December 8, 2025 It has become increasingly obvious that there are two kinds of Christian–the ones who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, and “...”
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: Micah Beckwith’s fertile, fertile imagination
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com December 8, 2025 It’s hard to know what Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is worse at—math or history. His understanding of history, particularly U.S. history, is to real history w “...”
Kennedy Commentary: The Phoenix Declaration
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy December 7, 2025 What–you may ask–is the Phoenix Declaration, recently adopted by Florida educators? The Declaration is a product of the Herit “...”
Hicks Commentary: Redistricting Is Both More and Less Than It Seems
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J. Hicks December 7, 2025 I have been reluctant to write about the redistricting debate in Indiana. After all, there is no original sin t “...”
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 “...”