Mitch Daniels

Dec 17, 2024 | bakersfield.com | Mitch Daniels

It’s embarrassing how often I read a book and recall so little of it a month later. Then there are those few that stick with me over decades. One of those was Landon Y. Jones’s “Great Expectations: America & the Baby Boom Generation,” a 1980 dissection of that then-youthful segment of the American population, and the author’s speculations on its future and future impact on the country.

Nov 25, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Mitch Daniels

Democracy Dies in DarknessA British attempt to gauge productivity counted “activities performed.” That isn’t how Walmart would do it. November 25, 2024 at 6:45 a.m. ESTIt was many years ago, doing business with Walmart, that I first heard the maxim “If you’re not keeping score, you’re just practicing.” I have found myself employing that simple wisdom continually ever since, and never more assiduously than when life took me to the noncompetitive sectors of society.

Nov 19, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Mitch Daniels |James Patterson

In the wake of the 2024 election, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels joins James Patterson to talk about the one issue politicians all try to avoid: the national debt. Though we have an impending debt disaster, both sides of the aisle avoid the hard choices that will eventually need to be made. Today, Daniels worries, it may be too late for a soft landing. We chose not to find solutions, and we’ll start living with consequences very soon.

Oct 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Mitch Daniels

Democracy Dies in DarknessColleges are finally showing signs of sanity about protests and speech, but there’s no reason to get complacent. October 9, 2024 at 3:41 p.m. EDTFootball teams I root for have a maddening habit of following up a big play with a sack, a tackle for a loss, or some setback that erases the gain and leaves things no better than before.

Sep 26, 2024 | wvnews.com | Mitch Daniels

Sept. 22 marked the end of summer, and with it the closing of another Deep Thinking Season. In delightful venues from Aspen to Sun Valley to Chautauqua, the sophisticated class once again gathered to contemplate the great issues of the day. Lectures were delivered, slide shows unlimbered and chins rubbed sagely over topics like the downward spiral of world order, the promise and peril of AI, semiconductors and national security, etc. And of course climate, climate, climate.