by jstewardfree | Jun 12, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Michael Sacasas | Some brief thought on the Programmable World (in which ubiquitous wireless sensors make objects and machines “smart”): The envisioned Programmable World, as Bill Wasik has called it, is a tremendously sophisticated time- and labor-saving...
by jstewardfree | Jun 10, 2013 | Grey Matter
By John Mark Reynolds | The Wall Street Journal, noting the retirement of Donald Kagan, states the obvious: higher education is broken. Its brokenness begins with the faculty. College is expensive, dominated by faculty unions, and hostile to moral education. Higher...
by jstewardfree | Jun 7, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark Movsesian | Last month, I wrote about a controversy surrounding the White House’s inclusion of a yoga garden in its annual Easter Egg Roll. The problem is this: yoga is a Hindu spiritual practice. Arguably, therefore, state-sponsored yoga is a religious...
by jstewardfree | Jun 5, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Joseph Knippenberg | That title is the motto of my university and the basis of a final exam question I asked the sophomores in my “Great Books” core course. The answers were interesting (in a disheartening way). The students “get” making a difference (a phrase...
by jstewardfree | Jun 3, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Daily Mail Reporter | Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim. Their study discovered a link between a man’s upper-body strength and their political views. Scientists from Aarhus...
