New FTU Course: What are the Opposing Views on Homosexuality?
Everyone has a side, but do you know the other side says? Learn more about both sides in this study from the Family Research Council. 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….
University of Gomorrah: Are the Girls Safe Anymore?
By Bernie Reeves | Recently, a caller to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR repeated the statistic that one in four young women is raped on American college campuses each year. Rehm’s guest, former president Jimmy Carter, actually had said sexual abuse, not rape, but neither he nor Rehm corrected the caller. Carter was…
New FTU Course: Is There a Case for Intelligent Design?
What theory best explains life on earth? Is there a designer of life, or is life the random product of natural selection? Experts argue the claims of intelligent design theory. 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…
Covetous Envy: The Forgotten Deadly Sin
By Russell Nieli | Modern rhetoric of income inequality is driven by covetous envy that betrays America’s tradition of applauding those who succeed. Caritas, humility, gratitude, and goodwill toward others are a healthy society’s answer to the ancient curses of envy and pride. When a financially struggling Mario…
What is Wrong with Academic Freedom?
By Patrick J. Deneen | Rarely do opinion pieces in college newspapers emerge as subjects of national controversy, but a recent essay by Harvard student Sandra Y.L. Korn has generated widespread denunciation among conservatives. Her essay—entitled “The Doctrine of Academic Freedom“—argues for dispensing…
New FTU Course: Do You Have Free Will?
Is choice real or not? Are we responsible for our actions or are we determined to such an extent that we simply are who we are? Join Sam Harris as he probes the human will. 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….
Is this Free Think University in Reverse?
By Robby Soave | Unlearning Liberty author interview: How college administrators murdered free speech. Perhaps nowhere are First Amendment values more imperiled than at the modern American college campus — the very place where free speech should be most dearly cherished and vigorously upheld. So argues Greg…
New 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…..
When Tolerance Turns to Coerced Celebration
By Jennifer A. Marshall | Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last night vetoed what should have been a straightforward religious freedom bill. Minor clarifications to existing law got lost in an avalanche of gross mischaracterization as national pundits predicted the bill would usher in a “homosexual Jim Crow” regime…