The Unstoppable Secular Students, part 1
By Lyz Liddell | A speech delivered at the Freethought Festival 2012 hosted by the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. I’m Lyz Liddell, the Director of Campus Organizing here at the Secular Student Alliance (which for the rest of this post I’ll call SSA). We are, of course, the only national organization in the freethought movement specifically and solely dedicated to the empowerment of secular students – which makes us…
Liberal Academics Despise American Homeschoolers
By Steve Gunn | The leaders of the American homeschool movement are convinced that the liberal education establishment is determined to destroy their traditions and force their children into government schools. If you check out the written comments of several leftist educators, you can see they have a point. It’s not as though the establishment’s hatred for homeschooling is…
How Roe vs. Wade Gave Us Gosnell
By Eric Metaxas | The testimony coming out of the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell paints an indelible picture of human depravity. Gosnell is charged with killing a 41-year-old woman patient as well as seven babies who’d been born alive after their abortions...
New Course: Do Free Markets Promote Cooperation?
What does a pencil have to do with my profit in life? Interact with a ground breaking essay from 50 years ago through this video experience. AVERAGE TIME: 2-3 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS.
What Few Deny Gay Marriage Will Do
From Prof Jack Lewis | By Robert P. George | Masha Gessen is a talented writer. Her widely praised (and sharply critical) biography of Vladimir Putin is only the most recent of her books across a range of subjects from Russian history, to mathematics, to the social implications of modern genetics. On top of her exertions as an author, she has served as Director of the Russian service of the U.S. government–funded Radio Liberty. She is a self-identified lesbian and a leading activist…
Polls on global warming, energy, and the sequester
By Karlyn Bowman, Andrew Rugg, Jennifer K. Marsico | American Enterprise Institute | 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...
Scholarship Fund Seeks to Counter ‘PC Indoctrination’ at Colleges
From Cato | By Tim Drake | According to Wired Campus, Grove City College entrepreneur Jim Van Eerden has unveiled a new resource for parents looking to counter liberal indoctrination of their children. Van Eerden’s plan involves allowing parents or others to deposit tuition dollars into a “scholarship” that would be available to students only after…
New FTU Course: Are We on the Road to Serfdom?
By Publius | Renown economist F.A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1943. It rocked the world. Discover why via this abridged version. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS.
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