Is Yoga Constitutional?
By Mark Movsesian | Last month, I wrote about a controversy surrounding the White House’s inclusion of a yoga garden in its annual Easter Egg Roll. The problem is this: yoga is a Hindu spiritual practice. Arguably, therefore, state-sponsored yoga is a religious endorsement that violates the Establishment Clause under existing Supreme Court case law. It turns out that very issue is being litigated this week in a California court. The Encinitas Union School District has introduced yoga as part of the…
Making a Life, Making a Living, and Making a Difference?
By Joseph Knippenberg | That title is the motto of my university and the basis of a final exam question I asked the sophomores in my “Great Books” core course. The answers were interesting (in a disheartening way). The students “get” making a difference…Making a difference is celebrated in the popular culture, and “kids these days” have a relatively sophisticated understanding of what it means and how they can do it. They also understand quite well making a living, something that is pounded into them on a variety of fronts. But making a life? A few could explain it, but most essentially
Study Shows Conservatives Have Big Biceps
By Daily Mail Reporter | Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim. Their study discovered a link between a man’s upper-body strength and their political…
What’s Your Major?
By Mark Perry | The college class of 2011 by academic discipline and gender; and the selective concern about gender imbalances. The chart …is based on data from the Department of Education for bachelor’s degrees by academic discipline and the sex of the graduating students for the college class of…
Commencement or Indoctrination Speech?
By Anthony Hadford | A commencement speech is an opportunity for students to reflect on their educational experiences and receive advice and inspiration from notable figures in society….Recently, commencement speeches have turned into the perfect opportunities for school boards to choose their favorite public policy speaker to have a final attempt at indoctrinating as many students, families, and friends as possible. At the University of Wisconsin…
FTU Helps Launch New Business Course
A new online business course, Flourishing Through Business 101, was launched May 22nd to teach and encourage the essentials for success in business and flourishing in the community in a way that colleges and business schools do not. The first of many courses to come, Flourishing Through Business 101 teaches essentials for success in business, and how business relates to human flourishing in…
My Top-Notch Illiberal Arts Education
By Danielle Charette | Wall Street Journal | At Swarthmore, it’s fine to smash ‘hegemonic power structures’ and silence other students.
For a case study in the illiberalism that has taken over liberal arts colleges, look no further than Swarthmore. I suspect that the Quakers who founded the school in 1864—and prized tolerance above all—wouldn’t recognize the Swarthmore where I am currently a junior. The latest upheaval has centered on the school’s radical environmentalist club, Mountain Justice, which…
Grove City Student Receives FTU Scholarship Award
Free Think University is pleased to announce another student scholarship, awarded by Foster and Lynn Friess in conjunction with the Left Right, Left Right, Forward March! Initiative (leftrightforward.org). Mr. and Mrs. Friess have been leaders in the business and philanthropic fields. They started the…
Polls on global warming, energy, etc.
The latest issue of AEI’s monthly newsletter on public opinion, AEI Political Report, examines the attitudes toward global warming, how Americans feel about the production and transportation of energy, the fallout of the sequester, changing attitudes about taxes, and the situation…