J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday
By Publius | Free Think U loves Tolkien. And to honor his birthday, January 3, and in the keeping of the Season (it is still Christmastide, you know), we thought we would post a short bit of an interview
LGBTQs at Notre Dame
By John Stonestreet | Not Taking ‘Yes’ For an Answer | For the past fifteen years, gay students at Notre Dame, the premiere Catholic university in the United States, have been asking for some kind of official recognition from university officials. Well, they recently got that recognition, and it shouldn’t surprise us that they are…
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‘Les Misérables’: 15 memorable quotes
By Publius | To mark the Dec. 25, 2012, opening of the new movie adaptation of “Les Mis,” directed by Tom Hooper, here are 15 memorable “Les Mis” quotes…
Millennial Jobs Report: Youth Unemployment at 10.9 Percent
By PRNewswire | Today’s unemployment picture for Millennials offers little in the way of promise for a generation in which genuine opportunities continue to be few and far between…The overall unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds for November 2012 is…
The Grinch at School?
By Eric Metaxas | For six years, the Moanalua High School orchestra in Hawaii has provided Christmas for poor African children. They hold a benefit concert that raises $30,000 each year for Mercy Ships, a fantastic Christian relief agency that provides life-saving, and life-enhancing surgery to the poor across the globe. But this year, a local atheist attempted to steal Christmas…
Will We Cease to Exist?
By Bonnie Kavoussi | U.S. Birth Rate Not High Enough To Keep Population Stable | Thanks to the weak economy, Americans are having fewer babies than the British and the French — not enough to maintain the size of the U.S. population without immigration, according to…
New FTU Course: Is Global Warming Theory True?
By Publius | The debate about global warming is heating up, Al Gore’s vision of environmental catastrophe has gone cold. What’s the real deal? AVERAGE TIME: 3-4 HOURS. 1,500 IMPACT POINTS.
The Age of Possibility
By Eric Metaxas | Choosing Our Extinction | Whatever your political persuasion, chances are that you believe in choice. …Would we really feel safe in a world where individual choice stood like a colossus on a barren moral landscape?…As New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote recently, “At some point over the past generation, people around the world entered what you might call the age of possibility. They became intolerant of any arrangement that might close off their personal…