FTU Course: Are Things Getting Better?
We hear a great deal about “progress” in our day, but are things on the whole getting better? By what measure can we judge the answer to this question? Think about this basic question with other free thinking people. 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…
Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient,…
Harvard Professor Sums Up Our Religious Freedom in 90 Seconds
By Prof Jack Lewis | Democracy works when most of the people, most of the time, choose to obey the law. Religious freedom in America is not about being free from religion, but being freed from a particular religious mandate. Watch as Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen spells out this…
FTU Course: Are You Entrepreneurial?
Risk and reward, ideas executed to perfection; do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur extraordinaire? Acton Institute leads you to the door of entrepreneurial excitement. 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 independent college scholarship fund…
The Crucial Importance of Stay-at-Home Wives
By Charles Murray | I’ll cut President Obama some slack. When he said that women staying at home with the kids is “not a choice we want Americans to make,” I assume he meant that it shouldn’t be a choice that women are forced to make. Even so, I have a beef with the tunnel vision that accompanies the…
Be Wise – A Lot of Life is Simply Over Rated
In this video blog, listen to ten minutes of encouragement about how to get the most out of your college experience. Quoting from Ecclesiastes and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Rick Atchley implores students attending Opening Assembly at Abilene Christian University to “start your race like you want it…
New FTU Course: Is Gambling a Good Bet?
Is the gambling industry a form of entertainment or irresponsibility? A social benefit or ill? Consider the various sides of this topic. 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…
If It’s 8:47, We Must Be Learning About Atoms
By Anthony Esolen | We ought to rename our planet according to the bureaucratic shackles we place upon our children. We shall call it Tormentaria. It seems quite apt. The Tormentarians are a humane race. They don’t favor harsh (though swift) punishment; they grow queasy if anyone mentions a whipping…
It’s Harmless, Right? This Is Your Brain on Drugs
By Abigail Sullivan Mooreoct | The gray matter of the nucleus accumbens, the walnut-shaped pleasure center of the brain, was glowing like a flame, showing a notable increase in density. “It could mean that there’s some sort of drug learning taking place,” speculated Jodi Gilman, at her computer screen…