The Student Solution to Affirmative Action
By Mark Bauerlein | With yet another affirmative action case reaching the Supreme Court just months after the last decision, and with that previous decision likely to produce multiple local challenges to admissions procedures at selective colleges across the country, we might ask whether the courts are…
Those Weirdos with Lots of Kids: Fecundophobia Defined
By John Stonestreet | According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 6.3 million of us have a diagnosed phobia—that is, an irrational, sometimes even debilitating, fear of something. It could be glossophobia, the fear of public speaking; or necrophobia, the...
What is a Conservative National Security/Foreign Policy?
Conservative foreign policy opinion was united through the 1980s. Clifford May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies explores how conservatives would secure America’s future in our continuing series of studies on Conservatism 101. 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…
High Octane Mix of Religion, Politics, and Employment
By Marvin Olasky | If Fox Sports had fired football analyst Craig James because he went off on an anti-homosexual tirade during a game broadcast, that would be fair. But when James in 2012 said gay civil unions are wrong, homosexuality is “a choice,” and gays will “have to answer to the Lord for their…
Heritage Foundation Leaders Headline FTU “Conservatism 101”
Washington DC, November 12, 2013 – The Heritage Foundation, the nation’s largest conservative think tank, has released a series of three new online, multi-media courses earlier today which are engaging thousands of students in an online conversation about “The American Conservative Tradition.” Called Conservatism101®, the series…
New Course: Who Were Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater?
After WWII, conservatism saw new leaders arise in Barry Goldwater and Robert Taft. Dr. Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation looks at these men and their ideas. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to…
Going Where No Science Has Gone Before…
By Janie B. Cheaney | There’s a fight going on in the pages of The New Republic. Over the last couple of months, evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has been duking it out with Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the magazine, over two great human endeavors: In this corner: “Science,” with a string of…
We’re Drunk…, But Not on Corn Whiskey
By Anthony Esolen | In October, 1919, a heavily “progressive” Congress passed the Volstead Act enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting, for almost all purposes, the production, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. There are two things everybody has learned from Prohibition. First, it is…
Malala Yousafzai Sits Down with President Obama and Family
By Lesley Clark | President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama met in the Oval Office Friday with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakastani girl who was shot in the head on her school bus by Taliban gunmen for criticizing their rule, including banning education for girls. The White House says the first couple…