FTU Course: Does Capitalism Hurt the Poor?
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…
The Illusion of Neutrality; A Regnant Fallacy
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 constitution had no such neutrality in mind…
Are You Able to Live Without a Keyboard?
By Seth Godin | When the masses only connect to the net without a keyboard, who will be left to change the world? It is possible but unlikely that someone will write a great novel on a tablet. You can’t create the spreadsheet that changes an industry on a smart phone. And professional programmers don’t…
Can You Prove How American You Are?
By Publius | Being an American is a privilege. Can you pass the test required to be taken by every American immigrant? Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences, which are free for students and qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship…
Mark It Up: To Annotate a Text, or Not?
By Charlie Wesley | As an undergraduate, I did not often annotate the texts I was assigned to read for class. Nor was I encouraged to. When I look back through the books I read as a freshman, I find they are utterly devoid of notations. A survey of my texts from sophomore and junior year yields a small…
The West’s Gaza: The Start of a Long Struggle?
By Jonah Goldberg | No one in the West wants a long struggle with jihadism. The problem is the enemy always gets a vote. The hawks (including me) were wrong about a lot, but some got one thing right. It’s going to be a long war. In the early days after 9/11 there was a lot of talk about a “clash of civilizations…”
FTU Course: Can You Walk with Malala?
By Publius | Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani girl who gained world attention by daring to blog about life in a place where freedom and life is threatened. Now she has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Can you walk in her shoes?
The Best that Love Can Do: A Manifesto of Optimism
By George Grant | As affecting as is the image of terrorists crashing into buildings in an effort to take as many lives as possible, the image of firemen rushing into those same buildings in an effort to save as many lives as possible is more affecting still. The worst that evil can do is no match for the…
Tax Inversions Help, Rather Than Hurt, the Economy
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth | Drugmaker Shire, based in Dublin, is in the process of being bought by AbbVie for $55 billion in a tax-inversion acquisition. We’ve all heard the statistics. More American multinational companies are merging with foreign corporations and moving their headquarters offshore to…