Well, it took me 5 days to publish my first post, but, in my defense, I was waiting for some really outrageous story for my debut. I considered President Obama’s bizarre personal involvement in Chicago’s Olympic bid, the likely death of the public option or maybe the Roman Polanski saga....

Sometimes when I’m reading, a particular sentence will jump out at me as a stand-alone bit of profundity. Here are a few that caught my eye: “Either somebody figures out how to sell libertarianism to single moms, or we can look forward to a future of being wedded to the welfare state.”...

September seems to be a month that is particularly prone to various “awareness” observances. Among them are the following: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month Cancer Awareness Month Human Trafficking Awareness Month Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Migraine...

I would like to extend a warm welcome to Mary Rose, who will begin blogging here with us. Mary is originally from Indiana and studied International Relations in the United Kingdom, where she developed her disdain for public funded healthcare. Currently, she is a website manager in Washington, DC. She...

Randy Barnett has a nice discussion at the Volokh Conspiracy on whether a Congressional mandate to buy private insurance is “constitutional”.

Myles Brand, former NCAA chairman, passed away yesterday from pancreatic cancer at the age of 67. Brand was also president of Indiana University from 1994-2002, a tenure which overlapped that of ITA’s resident Hoosiers I believe. Brand first came to the attention of the wider public when he fired...

He ain’t nothin’ but a Congressman.

What have we learned in the year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Not much, say two articles from the New York Times this past weekend.

Noted urban historian Thomas J. Sugrue of UPenn wrote in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago a brief history of the various ways the federal government has subsidized middle class home ownership since the Great Depression. The government has been getting its hands in the housing market long before...

Eli Saslow of the Washington Post has penned a nice piece titled, “9/11 as a Lesson, Not a Memory”. As ITA co-founder Paul Musgrave reminded me, the piece is reminiscent of an article by Musgrave which was first published years ago in Hoosier Review, a now defunct publication of Indiana University....