No One Believes It, But Extreme Poverty Is Declining Globally
By Josh Shepherd | In new research polling released this week, Barna Group finds that more than eight in 10 Americans (84 percent) are unaware global poverty has been reduced drastically in recent decades. The nationwide sample reveals that a majority of Americans (67 percent) falsely believe global poverty has…
Do Demographics Favor the Faithful: A Future for Atheism?
By Eric Metaxas | Every spring for the past 27 years, writers and other intellectuals have gathered in the Welsh town of Hay “to think about the world as it is,” “to imagine how it might be,” and to have a “big conversation about discovery and intellectual adventure.” This year, one of the featured speakers was…
The Supreme Court and Jesus’ Name: Decision for Freedom
By John Stonestreet | In a surprise to many, the Supreme Court has ruled you can not only open a town meeting in prayer, you can even mention Jesus. Since 1999, the town board of Greece, New York, has opened its monthly meeting with a prayer given by a local member of the clergy. Because Monroe County, New York,…
Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers: Are Liberal Arts for Everyone?
By Scott Samuelson | Once, when I told a guy on a plane that I taught philosophy at a community college, he responded, “So you teach Plato to plumbers?” Yes, indeed. But I also teach Plato to nurses’ aides, soldiers, ex-cons, preschool music teachers, janitors, Sudanese refugees, prospective wind-turbine…
New Study: Links Casual Marijuana Use and Brain Abnormalities
Leah Barkoukis | There are plenty of studies out there demonstrating the effects long-term marijuana use has on users, but for the first time, researchers at Northwestern University looked into the relationship between casual marijuana use and brain changes. What they discovered, which was published in the…
Should There Be a Black Mass at Harvard?
By Eric Metaxas | If you’re like me, you were probably irked that Harvard would allow a reenactment of a satanic black mass. But hold on, because there’s a lesson in all this. Really. As you may have heard, a club at Harvard had planned to reenact a “black mass” at the university’s Memorial Hall. For those of you…
Tony Blair: We Need to Take Militant Islam Seriously
By The Editors of World Magazine | The Middle East matters, says former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who argued recently that the threat of radicalized Islam continues to represent “the biggest threat to global security of the early 21st century.” Liberals in Britain continue to malign Blair as a supposed…
Foundations Once Destroyed: ‘Principle’ in Mansfield Park
“Henry Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name.” In so few words, the narrator of Mansfield Park identifies the foundation for the remarkable attachment of the charming and playful Henry Crawford for the demure and boring Fanny Price….
New FTU Course: Should We Oppose Islamic Extremism?
Is there any real benefit to seeking to defeat Islamism? With all the recent pain and death, what is the point of continuing? 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 this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund…