Entrepreneurship for Flourishing: Chris Horst / Peter Greer
AEI’s Values and Capitalism program just released a new book titled “Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing.” In it, the authors, Chris Horst and Peter Greer, argue that entrepreneurial businesses, “which sustain productive development long after charitable giving dries up,” are the real engine of true…
Give Me a Better Grade Because I Deserve It
By Ronald Lipsman | The grades I just issued in my post-calculus, differential equations course – a sophomore math offering taken mostly by engineering students—followed the usual bell-shaped curve, roughly 10% A’s, 20% B’s, 40% C’s, 20% D’s and 10% F’s. The complaints came more from the D students than…
Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
By Matt Ridley | Now come climate scientists’ implausible explanations for why the ‘hiatus’ has passed the 15-year mark. On Sept. 23 the United Nations will host a party for world leaders in New York to pledge urgent action against climate change. Yet leaders from China, India and Germany have already…
FTU Course: Would You Write the Truth?
By Publius | Publishing his novel, The Satanic Verses, put author Salman Rushdie’s life at risk, and even led to the death of his translator. In the face of death, would you write the truth? 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 fund…
Time for Celebrities To Apologize for All Their Apologizing?
By Jim Norton | Can we please stop embarrassing ourselves by pretending these apologies mean anything and admit they are simply a bloodless way to satisfy our bloodlust? I am disgusted with Henry Rollins. How could he be so insensitive? What he said about Robin Williams was extraordinarily offensive…
Are Smartphones Making Young People Emotionally Stunted?
By Ellie Zolfagharifard | Communicating through emoticons is causing them to become socially awkward, experts warn. Young kids are glued to electronic devices for nearly 5 hours each day. In a study, 11 to 12-year-olds who went 5 days without looking at an electronic screen were better at reading human emotions than their friends. Scientists claim emoticons are…
Parent Consumers, Baby Commodities: Surrogacy Problems
By John Stonestreet | Anyone who frequents Starbucks knows that the order you’re least likely to hear in a shop is for “a cup of coffee.” There is no end to the elaborate combinations of flavorings and variations that we caffeine addicts can and have come up with. Now, this kind of choice is harmless enough….
FTU Course: Is Faith in God Compatible with Science?
By Publius | Can Scientists believe in God, or hold that only a belief in God makes science rational? World renown scientists make the case. 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 fund.
What Does Ebola Say About the American People?
By Heather Wilhelm | If you’ve ever spent significant time in Africa—and I mean real, gritty Africa, not the gauzy, Abercrombie & Kent-guided, cocktails-on-the-Serengeti Africa that many moneyed Americans know—you might understand why the current Ebola outbreak is so scary. In many parts of the continent…