The Spread of Physician-Assisted Suicide
By Jacqueline Harvey | The expansion of physician-assisted suicide from the West to the East coast makes its legalization in other neighboring states much more likely. On May 20, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed “The Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act,” legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) throughout the state. This event matters not only because this law governs life and death, but also because Vermont is the first state to sanction PAS through the legislative process, via the votes of elected representatives. The law also represents the spread of PAS from…
New FTU Course: What Are the Limits to Scientific Inquiry?
Are there limits to what the scientific method and discovery can teach us? Does science require insight from outside the natural sciences? Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences, which are free for students and qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund.
Plain Talk About The Current Crisis
It’s impossible to default on the debt—-years down the road, maybe. Average monthly interest costs are $18 billion…we take in on average $225 billion. By law, the president must pay interest first before anything else. In addition to interest we must roll over the $550 billion of maturing debt each…
More than Voles: Humans, Creativity, and Overpopulation
By Eric Metaxas | For decades, even centuries, we’ve been warned that overpopulation will lead to mass starvation. But the cataclysm has yet to come….If there is ever a Hall of Fame for Pernicious Ideas, Thomas Malthus’s “An Essay on the Principle of Population” would be in the so-called charter class….
New FTU Course: What is Libertarianism?
When does government intervention hurt more than it helps? Wall Street Journal columnist Stephen Moore makes the case for less government and for Libertarian ideals. Join us for this second course in the Conservatism 101 series. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences,…
Watching the Population Change…
By Mark J. Perry | Bill McBride at Calculated Risk provides the interesting animated chart above of America’s population distribution by age from 1900 through 2060 (updates every few seconds in five-year intervals), based on population data from the Census Bureau (actual data through 2010 and projections through
Current Debate: Arts Practical/Arts Liberal
By James Tonkowich | A dear friend’s daughter just graduated from a small, highly respected liberal arts college with her Bachelor of Arts in psychology “with all the honors, rights, and privileges to that degree appertaining.” What precisely those honors, rights and privileges are and whether they’re worth the price are…
Class is in Session: Announcing Conservatism 101
Activism alone is dangerous. Education alone is feeble. Whether you are a liberal or a conservative (or something else), here’s an opportunity to understand an increasingly under-represented point of view on America’s college campuses. Conservatism 101, a rigorous examination of the American conservative…
New FTU Course: What is My Life Philosophy?
Social commentator John Stonestreet surveys how people make sense of the world and our place in it, so you can choose a path. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences, which are free for students and qualify them to…