by jstewardfree | Aug 16, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Gina Dalfonzo | The Atlantic | Drunken One-Night Stands Don’t Fit in Shakespeare’s World, Yet Joss Whedon put one in his new adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Here’s why it doesn’t work. In Joss Whedon’s otherwise delightful new...
by jstewardfree | Aug 14, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Benno Schmidt | His skepticism about the merits of a sacrosanct liberal history textbook has sparked an overdue debate. Most Americans would agree that academic freedom is a sacred right of the academy and crucial to the American experiment in democracy. But what...
by jstewardfree | Aug 12, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Cameron McWhirter and Douglas Belkin | Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected. As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month, the 101-year-old Jesuit...
by jstewardfree | Aug 9, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Prof Jack Lewis | Free Think U Foundation is proud to announce another of its recent scholarship winners, Jon Schneider, who is enrolled at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Jon was awarded a grant toward his college tuition costs in part...
by jstewardfree | Aug 7, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | You’ve heard it over and over: Gay “Marriage” is inevitable. Well, at least that’s what its supporters want you to believe. In his book, “The Black Swan,” Nicholas Nassim Taleb discussed what he calls the “narrative fallacy.” This refers to our...