by jstewardfree | Sep 20, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Listen in to a panel discussion at Princeton University moderated by Brit Hume on the issue of ethics and ethical decision-making. Can you know right from wrong? 2 HOURS, 1,000 POINTS....
by jstewardfree | Sep 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Samuel Klee We’ve all heard it—life is far easier now than “back in the day” when our grandparents were young. I admit, those words may contain some degree of truth; at school, research no longer requires laborious pilgrimages to musty library crypts, and I shall...
by jstewardfree | Sep 16, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Amy Payne | This past week in The New York Times—on September 11, no less—Russian President Vladimir Putin took issue with the idea of American exceptionalism. He wrote: It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the...
by jstewardfree | Sep 12, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Neil Irwin | If you only looked at the headlines on Friday’s August jobs numbers, you’d think “Not bad!” You would also be completely wrong. Yes, the unemployment rate fell a notch to 7.3 percent, from 7.4 percent in July. Yes, the nation added 169,000 jobs,...
by jstewardfree | Sep 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Nico Perrino | As college students head back to campus this fall, they face a multitude of threats to their fundamental freedoms. Unconstitutional “free speech zones” and demonstration policies restrict when and where students can speak. New federal rules...