New FTU Course: What is Progressivism?
Matt Spalding of the Heritage Foundation discusses the roots of the conservatism’s rival, the progressive movement, and how it led to a need for the modern conservative movement. 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…
A Married Mom and Dad Really Do Matter: New Evidence
By Mark Regnerus | A new academic study based on the Canadian census suggests that a married mom and dad matter for children. Children of same-sex coupled households do not fare as well. There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate about gay parenting and the unique…
New at FTU: Why are Buckley and Fusion Conservatism Important?
Becky Norton Dunlop of the Heritage Foundation explores how William F. Buckley, Jr. and Frank Meyer “fused” disparate factions of conservatism to form the modern conservative movement. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate…
Insights on the Government Shutdown from Thucydides
By Robert M. Woods | “And if we should know what government is, we should observe, in Thucydides’ laconic account of the revolution at Corcyra, what happens when it fails.” – Stringfellow Barr Most keen observers would say that our government has been in failure mode for a number of decades, and this is…
New FTU Course: How Do People Overcome Adversity?
Learn from one of the world’s top neurosurgeons, Dr. Ben Carson, who grew up poor and struggled in school. Learn how to overcome a difficult past from one who has. 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…
In Praise of Having Humble First Jobs
By Simon C.Y. Wong | Like many parents, I am troubled by the growing fixation with careers. We seem to be putting young people on the career treadmill at an earlier and earlier age. Choosing extracurricular activities, summer jobs, and even preschool is increasingly undertaken with a calculating eye…
New FTU Course: Why is the Constitution Important?
Should courts interpret the Constitution as written, or should the courts alter the Constitution as they deem necessary? Author and radio host Mark Levin provides perspective. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to…
Asking Questions, Seeking Answers
By John Stonestreet | We’ve all heard there are no bad questions… well, that isn’t exactly true. In fact, the very first question was bad…. In his classic work, Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton talks about an English yachtsman who, thinking he had discovered an island in the South Seas, had actually landed back in England. Chesterton said that this was his own story. All of Chesterton’s supposedly avant-garde questions about philosophy and the meaning of life had led him, slowly, inexorably along the well-worn path back to the faith of the apostles. In a newer but still marvelous book, “The End of Our Exploring,” Matthew Lee Anderson traces…
Cohabiting: A Poor Substitute for Marriage
By Eric Metaxas | The Downside of Cohabiting | Twelve years ago, half of the twenty-somethings surveyed by the National Marriage Project agreed with the statement “You would only marry someone if he or she agreed to live together with you first, so that you could find out whether you really get along.”