Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities
By Cameron McWhirter and Douglas Belkin | Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected. As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month, the 101-year-old Jesuit University faces a crisis: There will be 25% fewer freshmen than…
Free Think U Scholarship Goes to App State Student
By Prof Jack Lewis | Free Think U Foundation is proud to announce another of its recent scholarship winners, Jon Schneider, who is enrolled at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Jon was awarded a grant toward his college tuition costs in part because of his course editing work for Free Think University. “I decided I wanted to get involved because I wanted to be a part of something…
Marriage on the Ropes?
By Eric Metaxas | You’ve heard it over and over: Gay “Marriage” is inevitable. Well, at least that’s what it supporters want you to believe. In his book, “The Black Swan,” Nicholas Nassim Taleb discussed what he calls the “narrative fallacy.” This refers to our “limited ability” to look at a sequence of facts “without weaving an explanation into them.” While this tendency helps us make sense of the world around us, it can and often does…
I Mean Business
By Jason Fertig | Many courses teach about business, but not how to actually do it. As a professor in a business school, each semester I strive to make my courses relevant for students. For readers who are not well-versed in the ins-and-out of B-Schools, my admission may be a bit of a surprise. But politicized majors (e.g., gender studies) are not the only disciplines that present students with an intellectually vapid experience these days. Many business courses are not…
Undoing the Brainwashing
By Thomas Sowell | This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they can undo some of the brainwashing that has become so common in what are supposed to be institutions of higher learning. The strategy used by General Douglas MacArthur so successfully in the Pacific during World War II can be useful in this very different kind of battle. Instead of fighting the Japanese for every island stronghold as the Americans advanced toward Japan, MacArthur sent his troops into battle for only those islands that were…
Benjamin Rush’s 14 Rules for His Young Son
By Maria Popova | “Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you.” Founding father and American Enlightenment leader Benjamin Rush (1745 — 1813) is among the most diversely influential figures in modern history — he signed the Declaration of Independence and championed…
Defending Our Religious Freedoms
By John Stonestreet | Threats against religious liberty and freedom of conscience are no longer theoretical—they’re real, and they’re growing….Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia says, “The day when Americans could take the Founders’ understanding of religious freedom as a given is over. We need to wake up.” Chaput is responding to the latest revelations
Thou Shalt Not Mention God
By Nathan Harden | An atheist group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation is suing Ball State University. Apparently the group is arguing that it was unconstitutional for a physics professor to suggest there might be…
Marrying Young: Point/Counter-Point
Compiled by Prof Jack Lewis | These days, young married couples are an anomaly. In pop culture, they usually get married at a surprise wedding: Think Andy and April in Parks and Recreation or Jessa and Thomas-John (who’s not really young) in Girls. Before the bouquet toss, viewers were counting down to the divorce episode, probably because celebrities have taught us that it won’t last. Britney Spears’ first marriage was annulled within hours, and she racked up a second divorce before age 26. At age 22, Jessica Simpson scored a reality television show about her marriage to Nick Lachey: The couple divorced three seasons (er, years) later. Is it any wonder