Reviving Blue Collar Work: 4 Myths About the Skilled Trades
By Jeremy Anderberg | For better or for worse, what we do for a living often defines us. It’s one of the first questions we ask people when we meet them for the first time. It’s where we will end up spending 90,000 hours of our life, over the course of 40-some years. Unfortunately, most people count themselves as…
Does Churchill Still Stand Alone in the Hall of Greatness?
By Boris Johnson | When I was growing up, there was no doubt about it: Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman Britain had ever produced. My brother and I pored over Sir Martin Gilbert ’s biographical “Life in Pictures” enough to memorize the captions. I knew that Churchill had led my country to…
FTU Course: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By Publius | How much is enough? Read Tolstoy’s classic short story about the man seeking to own enough land to make him happy. Does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul? AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS.
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Is Asking You a Question
Is Healthcare a Right? ISI is now inviting college students to submit to their annual essay contest. Everybody needs healthcare, but not everyone can afford it. What would our founding fathers say? There are lots of things to think about when writing your essay. What are rights? What is the relationship…
Intentionally Married, Happily Married
Marriage in America is in trouble: new data from Pew Research shows that barely half of adults in the U.S. are married. That’s an all-time low. And if this trend continues, singles will soon make up the majority of the adult U.S. population. What’s more, the median age of first marriage for both men and…
FTU Course: Is Islamic Extremism a Global Threat?
Is there any real benefit to seeking to defeat Islamism? With all the recent pain and death, what is the point of continuing? Can this ideology be defeated? Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair states what is at stake in this important question. Sign in to the class here to learn more about…
Climate Science Is Not Yet a Settled Issue
By Steven E. Koonin | The idea that “Climate science is settled” runs through today’s popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has..
FTU Course: Is Historic Revisionism a Problem?
Is the academy re-writing history? Can we really know what happened in the past? Does truth change over time? Consider these important questions from several current positions with other free thinkers. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund…
Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues
By Bari Weiss | The cultural critic on why ignoring the biological differences between men and women risks undermining Western civilization. ‘What you’re seeing is how a civilization commits suicide,” says Camille Paglia. This self-described “notorious Amazon feminist” isn’t telling anyone to Lean In or asking…