Bigger is Not Necessarily Better in Information-Rich Digital Economy
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger | I recently read an intriguing column, The End of Mass Production, by technology author and columnist Kevin Maney. I first met Maney several years ago when he was at USA Today, and have always enjoyed his columns and books. The mass production of standardized products is…
What Would Tocqueville Say About #CancelColbert?
By Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria | Suey Park, a 23-year-old self-professed activist known on Twitter for the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which provided Asian women a space to discuss and vent the limiting and often stereotyped perceptions of Asians in popular culture, took on a big fish last week with her latest…
Russia’s Approaching Demographic Time Bomb
By Patrick J. Buchanan | “World Population 2012″ projects the population growth, or decline, of every country and continent, between now and 2050. Most deeply involved in Crimea’s crisis are Russia and Ukraine. Yet, looking at the UN numbers, there seems an element of absurdity in this confrontation that…
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….