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…
What Can ‘Hard Work U’ Teach the Elite Schools?
By Stephen Moore | “If I were an employer, I’d take our graduates over those at most any other schools,” says Mr. Davis. “The kids at these East Coast colleges strike me as being a little spoiled. Our graduates don’t expect to come into the company as the CEO.” But they certainly join a company knowing the value of work….
C.S. Lewis on the Gaining, Keeping, and Distributing of Power
By Michael Ward | The potential tyranny of big government is not the only constitutional danger facing Western democracies. In Norman Maclean’s fly fishing novella, A River Runs Through It, Maclean suggests (echoing some Native American traditions) that fishing isn’t merely an exercise in raw power, but a graceful recognition that you and the fish you seek to catch are…
Is Your Liberty as Secure as Your Books?
By D.C. Innes | I own books. Many books. They are the tools of my academic trade. But they are also the highways of my political and even spiritual liberty. Access to my books is like my access to air. Seizing my books would be worse than placing me under house arrest. If books are important to you—as they should be—and if you are transitioning over to electronic books, you should…
More Americans Will Have No Choice but to be Entrepreneurs
By James Pethokoukis | Entrepreneurial activity is down, but more of those starting businesses lately are doing so because they spy a market opportunity than because they just lost their job. According to the annual Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, the startup rate declined slightly from 0.32% of American adults per month starting businesses in 2011…
What Can Happen When False Narratives Fly?
By Barnabas Piper | DeSean Jackson is an explosive wide receiver known for big plays and blazing speed. Last season was the best of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles: He caught more than 80 passes for 1,300 yards and scored nine touchdowns. In this era of air-it-out football, Jackson is a coveted…
C.S. Lewis on Education Versus Vocational Training
C. S. Lewis sounds this warning in a 1939 essay recently collected and published in Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews By C. S. Lewis (page 22): Education is essentially for freemen and vocational training for slaves. That is how they were distributed in the old unequal societies; the poor man’s son was apprenticed to a trade, the rich man’s son went to Eton and…