John Locke and Our Nation’s Founding Principles
By Jerome Huyler | Millions today fear the nation is heading in the wrong direction, if not rushing headlong toward calamity. Sensing the urgent need for a dramatic “mid-course” correction, citizens should search for guidance in the doctrines that have served so many, so well, for so long. Founding principles are…
Free Think University Returns to CPAC 2014
Free Think University will again be engaging students on the floor of CPAC 2014 with opportunities to learn more about our courses and employment opportunities for student editors. And this year we will be awarding $2,000 in student scholarships -- $1,000 for the...
New FTU Course: Are You Using Your Brain?
Is your brain up to its potential? Recent neuroscience continues to unlock the wonders and workings of our amazing minds. Get up to speed in this experience. 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.
Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues
By Bari Weiss | The cultural critic on why ignoring the biological differences between men and women risks undermining Western civilization itself. ‘What you’re seeing is how a civilization commits suicide,” says Camille Paglia. This self-described “notorious Amazon feminist” isn’t telling anyone to Lean In or…
More on Careful Thinking and Quick Writing
By Alan Jacobs | So, about having ideas worth expressing. Let me start by working my way through this passage from C. S. Lewis on the value of reading old books: Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will…
New FTU Course: Should I Cohabitate?
Is a ring even necessary anymore? With sexual mores so open and culture so willing to encourage cohabitation, are there any remaining reasons to consider “getting hitched”? 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.
Down Syndrome Restaurateur Captures The American Dream
By Ericka Anderson | You might not expect a child with Down syndrome to grow up and become a small-business owner — but that’s exactly what Tim Harris did. From the time he was 14 years old, his parents say, Harris was determined to own a restaurant. His dream came true several years ago when his father…
New FTU Course: Where Do Impactful Ideas Come From?
How does the metaphorical light bulb go off? Is it a flash of genius? Can such thinking be cultivated? Come explore the nature of ideas themselves. 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 Catastrophe? Meet Richard Lindzen of MIT
By Ethan Epstein | MIT’s Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist. When you first meet Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, leading climate “skeptic,” and all-around scourge of James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Al Gore, the Intergovernmental…