The Unteachables: A Generation that Cannot Learn
by Janice Fiamengo | "The honeymoon is over." Instructors who award low grades in humanities disciplines will likely be familiar with a phenomenon that occurs after the first essays are returned to students: Read more....
New FTU Course: Classical Poetry – Whispers of Immortality
Classical poetry stirs the soul; it speaks to people in different times and places because humanity shares much in common. Experience it. AVERAGE TIME: 1-2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these courses, which are free for...
“Newspeak” and the Genius of George Orwell
by Prof. Jack Lewis, excerpted from www.newspeakdictionary.com | This page is inspired by the language of Newspeak from George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Newspeak was the official language of the totalitarian state of Oceania. In the totalitarian...
Ben Carson’s Academic Heresy
by Dr. Robert P. George, Princeton University | No, not that Commencement speaker controversy. That Commencement speaker controversy I understand. It’s relatively simple: The left-liberals who run the show at Georgetown have found a way to signal to the world that the...
New FTU Course: Rules for (Good) Radicals
Saul Alinsky has shaped Liberal activism in the current political environment. This course defines his 13 Rules, from the other side. AVERAGE TIME: 1-2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these courses, which are free for...
Rampant Egalitarianism
By Prof. Jack Lewis | Modern America seems to have taken one of our founding pillars and turned it into something ugly. I am referring to the idea basic to our Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." A study of this phrase is interesting in...
Evil Republicans 101
By Duke Cheston | Alas, John Strange, a graduate student who teaches PS 201: Introduction to American Government and Politics at NC State, has assigned readings for his class that argue two main themes - 1) conservatives are stupid, and 2) the Constitution sucks. Read...
Book Explains Roots and Threat of Political Correctness
By Prof. Jack Lewis | In a ground-breaking new book called Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction, author Howard S. Schwartz traces the roots of political correctness....
New FTU Course: Character and Citizenship
Why is moral education so important in creating great citizens who create great nations? Great Americans answer in their own words. AVERAGE TIME: 1 HOUR. 1000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these courses, which are free for students...