by jstewardfree | Jul 22, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Billy Hallowell | Professor Pokes Holes in Common Claims Surrounding Why People Become Islamic Extremists — and Reveals the ‘Toxic Brew’ at the Center of It All. A Georgetown University foreign policy professor who also serves as a senior adviser to the U.S. State...
by jstewardfree | Jul 20, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Charlie Butts | An anti-gambling group is getting set for a national day of action on exposing the harmful effects of gambling. Stop Predatory Gambling has frequently pointed out in previous interviews on OneNewsNow how legalized gambling is a failed policy. In...
by jstewardfree | Jul 15, 2015 | Grey Matter
“To know the comic we must know the rational.” —Molière By Anthony Sacramone | So everyone’s heard by now that Jerry Seinfeld has joined the chorus of comics disturbed by the censorious culture on college campuses, such that they are refusing to play these venues...
by jstewardfree | Jul 13, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Shane Morris | In “The Screwtape Letters,” C. S. Lewis describes through the mouth of his professorial senior demon something he calls “the Materialist Magician”: “I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise...
by jstewardfree | Jul 8, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Anthony Esolen | “We participate in being without remainder,” says the aging Reverend John Ames, the narrator in Marilynne Robinson’s wise and theologically meditative novel Gilead. The mystery of being is inexhaustible. Ames looks out his window at his small son...
by jstewardfree | Jul 6, 2015 | Grey Matter
By George Will | From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted...