by jstewardfree | Nov 8, 2014 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Amidst the arguments about human freedom and human dignity, how do we find a voice that promotes human flourishing? Do we understand the different points of view, and can we value both woman and child? AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class...
by jstewardfree | Nov 5, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Peter Augustine Lawler | The highly rated CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory compensates for its lack of refinement (it has a laugh track!) with its brains. The show began with characters who were more like caricatures of four types of physical scientists: the...
by jstewardfree | Nov 3, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Rod Dreher | I was late coming to Dante. Never read him in high school or college, and after my formal education ended with my bachelor’s degree, why on earth would I have bothered? As a professional journalist, I read voraciously, but a seven-hundred-year-old poem...
by jstewardfree | Nov 1, 2014 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Capitalism is often decried as exploitative and morally evil. The “1%” causes the “99%” to suffer. Does free market capitalism make the poor poorer? Weigh the evidence and decide yourself. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in...
by jstewardfree | Oct 29, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Anthony Esolen | The secular state cannot be neutral in matters of religion. We have all heard what has come to be a liberal dictum, that the State must remain neutral as regards religion or irreligion. One can show fairly easily that the men who wrote our...
