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 “...”
Hicks Commentary: A Pretty Bad Way to End the Year
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael J. Hicks December 21, 2025 The final jobs report of 2025 makes one thing abundantly clear: The critics of President Donald Trump’s tari “...”
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 “...”
Kennedy Commentary: It’s Not Your Fault…
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy December 18, 2025 Heather Cox Richardson recently explored the success of Trump’s “sales pitch,” which she attributed to his ability to leve “...”
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 “...”