Were Christian Missionaries a Force for Good?
By Eric Metaxas | What’s been perhaps the greatest force for democracy and freedom in the world? It was a world in which the gods “were everywhere and thought to be undependable.” That’s because, apart from “some magical powers” and “perhaps the gift of immortality,” there was little to distinguish them…
Women Reject Abortion at Highest Rate Since 1973
By Gina Diorio | Confirming the pro-life trend of recent years, a new report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute shows that the abortion rate nationwide has fallen to its lowest point since 1973, the year the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortion legal. According to the report, the U.S. abortion rate…
This Is Irrefutable Evidence Of The Value Of A Humanities Education
By Carolyn Gregoire | “You shouldn’t enter college worried about what you will do when you exit,” David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, said at a World Economic Forum panel discussion last week on the state of the humanities. These words may be comforting to the thousands of humanities and…
Shoveling Love to Your Neighbor’s Doorstep
By Andree Seu Peterson | We got whacked with snow a week ago, first the soft kind (good for shoveling but bad for snowmen), then the wet kind (backbreaking for shoveling, but we got two cool snowmen out of it). After clearing my own little piece of the American dream, I had in mind to just keep shoveling…
New 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…
Can Books and Ebooks Coexist? Yes, and They Will!
Will the printed book disappear due to the eBook explosion? Are eBook sales flat-lining? Lovers of books continue to worry while eBook readers can’t figure out why printed books persist. The following infographic shows how the traditional hard copy book is holding its own against the new electronic books….
Minimum Wages: Effects on Employment and Labor Turnover
By Pierre Brochu and David A Green | On 14 January 2014 a group of 75 economists, including seven Nobel laureates, released a letter calling for an increase in the US minimum wage (Woellert 2014). At the same time, George Osborne, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, has called for the…
New FTU Course: Should We End Masculinity?
Has true manhood disappeared? And are we better off without such an ideal? What constitutes authentic masculinity and is it something we want in our culture? Think freely about it here. 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.
Judging Religious Beliefs . . . in Court
By Eric Metaxas | Beyond disturbing. A British court wants to decide the truth of religious beliefs. Don’t believe me? Last week, a British magistrate issued what the Telegraph newspaper called “one of the most unusual documents ever issued by a British court.” What was this “unusual document?” It was an…