by jstewardfree | Sep 30, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark J. Perry Bill McBride at Calculated Risk provides the interesting animated chart above of America’s population distribution by age from 1900 through 2060 (updates every few seconds in five-year intervals), based on population data from the Census Bureau...
by jstewardfree | Sep 27, 2013 | Grey Matter
By James Tonkowich | A dear friend’s daughter just graduated from a small, highly respected liberal arts college with her Bachelor of Arts in psychology “with all the honors, rights, and privileges to that degree appertaining.” What precisely those honors, rights and...
by jstewardfree | Sep 25, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Activism alone is dangerous. Education alone is feeble. Whether you are a liberal or a conservative (or something else), here’s an opportunity to understand an increasingly under-represented point of view on America’s college campuses. Conservatism 101, a rigorous...
by jstewardfree | Sep 25, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Social commentator John Stonestreet surveys how people make sense of the world and our place in it, so you can choose a path. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences, which are free for...
by jstewardfree | Sep 23, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Lee Siegel | Fewer and fewer undergraduates are majoring in the humanities, and critic Lee Siegel couldn’t be happier. As he tells WSJ’s Gary Rosen, great poetry and novels are meant to be experienced in private and alone, away from the competitive pressures of the...
