Fast February Free Think U Points Contest
By Cato | During the month of February, Free Think U will be sponsoring a limited time offer for students to earn “fast” points. From February 1-February 28, each student who completes a Free Think U course will receive DOUBLE the Impact Point value toward our Spring scholarship competitions. For example, a student who completes the course
Reading Writers I Can’t Stand, pt. 2
By Maria Bustillos | Once we are persuaded of the authenticity and quality of the author’s message, it remains for the reader either to contend or to submit. Moment by moment, an engaged reader will be testing all the author says—for its humor and generosity, for its grace of expression, for its truth. We try his ideas on, you might say, one by one. This exercise can be both…
Reading Writers I Can’t Stand
By Maria Bustillos, The New Yorker | The strange bliss of reading is mysterious even to those who are most susceptible to it. I’m not speaking here of the pleasures of learning, nor of those to be had from being drawn into an exciting story, but simply of the sensual delight of reading good writing, all by itself. This pleasure is in no way dependent on agreement with the author; consider that it may be possible to find a writer’s work gorgeous even when he is saying something plain awful. There are a number of authors who have…
The New Student Lounge Club
By Carys Mills | Toronto Star | Student sex party draws hundreds | Hundreds of students lined up Monday night for a peek at the city’s sex club scene, where some of their peers were munching on pizza and watching porn. Inside the Oasis Aqua Lounge, a downtown club that bills itself as a water-themed adult playground, the atmosphere was close to a house party with little nudity, at least…
Long Words
By The Clapham Institute | “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” wrote George Orwell, who warned of governments resorting to “long words and exhausted idioms” to mask unsavory behavior. With Orwell in mind, you might want to see “Zero Dark Thirty,” the movie that…
Slow Learning
By Publius | Learning is much more related to tree farming than the instant consumption described in the first list. Timing is almost everything in life. This applies to a lot more than just a joke’s punch line. In a joke, it is the cadence, the choice of just how long to pause before letting the line go. In education, timing should have more to do with…
King’s Dream
By Chuck Colson | The Good Society and the Moral Law. More than forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They marched here for the cause of civil rights. And that day they heard Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech…
The Higher Education Bubble
By Richard Vedder | Higher education is in a bubble situation—its price has risen sharply, fueled by cheap federal loan and grant money (sound familiar?) while the return on the investment has fallen. More and more college students are either not graduating or are taking jobs that do not require college-level skills and often…
Social Media Contest Winners Announced!
By Cato | Free Think U is proud to announce the top 3 prize winners in the Holiday Social Media Contest! Cash prizes of $250, $200 and $150 will be awarded to the first place through the third place finishers respectively. Each of these students participated in the contest by commenting on the Free Think U Facebook page, asking questions…