Newtown Essay in NY Times
By Publius | Ross Douthat has written insightfully about the Newtown massacre in the NY Times. Citing Dostoevksy’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” he talks about the Christian response to suffering: “…the Christmas story isn’t just the manger and the shepherds and the baby Jesus, meek and mild. The rage of Herod is there as well, and the slaughtered innocents of Bethlehem, and the myrrh that prepares bodies for the grave. The cross looms behind the stable – the shadow of violence…
Lifelong Learner Wins $$$
By Cato | Free Think U Foundation is proud to announce another one of its most recent scholarship winners, Shuree Hoffman, a 37 year-old from Arlington, Washington. Shuree was among the top ten winners in Free Think U’s CollegePlus Fall 2012 Scholarship Contest and was awarded 2 free online courses from CollegePlus in addition to a Kindle Fire HD.
New FTU Course: Would You Write the Truth?
By Publius | Publishing his novel, The Satanic Verses, put author Salman Rushdie’s life at risk, and even led to the death of his translator. In the face of death, would you write the truth? AVERAGE TIME: 1-2 HOURS. 750 IMPACT POINTS.
R U A Cliché
by Hephzibah Anderson | …I am not proud. As Nigel Fountain, author of a new book Clichés: Avoid Them Like the Plague (Michael O’Mara), would tell me, I am guilty of repetition, banality and confirmation of the expected. Did it make us only more clichéd that we were fretting so much about using them? Are there some clichés that are simply unavoidable? The word itself originates…
Is the Modern College Sustainable?
By Robert Paquette | …In promoting sustainability, college officials and board members shamelessly congratulate themselves on being “leaders in education and environmental stewardship.” One might legitimately ask, however, whether in an introspective moment their vainglory would extend to the good stewardship of their country’s…
The Obama Generation: 6 in 10 Want More Government
By TheCollegeFix staff | A new Pew Research poll shows that in the wake of record levels of spending and more than $16 trillion in government debt, the Obama administration’s move to increase the role of government in citizen’s lives is having its desired effect: It has created a mentality of…
$3,000 Scholarship Winner!
By Cato | Free Think U Foundation is proud to announce one of its most recent scholarship winners, Hannah Peck, a Sophomore Paralegal Studies major who has been enrolled at Liberty University and is now taking courses with CollegePlus. Hannah was the first-place finisher in Free Think U’s CollegePlus Fall 2012 Scholarship Contest and was awarded $3,000 in…
November Scholarships Total $37,000.00
By Cato | Free Think U Foundation is proud to announce its most recent scholarship winners who participated in the Free Think U – CollegePlus Fall 2012 Scholarship Contest. Free Think U partnered with CollegePlus in giving away a $3,000 grand prize scholarship, in addition to smaller individual scholarships and several Kindle Fire HD’s…
Students told to Disavow ‘American-ness, Maleness, Whiteness, Heterosexuality’
By Ryan Lovelace | A political science professor at Butler University asks students to disregard their “American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status” when writing and speaking in the classroom – a practice the school’s arts and sciences dean defended as a way to negate students’…