by jstewardfree | Jun 10, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Thomas G. West | Did Americans before the 20th century lack compassion for the poor? Did they treat the poor with indifference or even cruelty? That is the impression given by most high school and college textbooks. Few students ever learn that government-funded...
by jstewardfree | Jun 8, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Sarah Schuch | The stories vary: Forced off the street at gun point. Trafficked by family members and sold to others. Pimped out by a man who she thought loved her. But one thing is the same. They were all violated, abused, beaten and forced into a life they never...
by jstewardfree | Jun 3, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Clyde Haberman | The second half of the 1960s was a boom time for nightmarish visions of what lay ahead for humankind. In 1966, for example, a writer named Harry Harrison came out with a science fiction novel titled “Make Room! Make Room!” Sketching a dystopian...
by jstewardfree | Jun 1, 2015 | Grey Matter
By John Rosemond | A major U.S. newspaper recently ran a piece detailing all the ways children benefit from doing chores. Well, not all the ways. They failed to mention the most important benefit: Chores, properly managed, teach citizenship values. “Properly...
by jstewardfree | May 27, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Joseph Turner | Social workers are regularly tasked with diagnosing and treating people’s mental health issues. How can we if we accept that all same-sex attraction is healthy? A scene stands out to me from my graduate program in social work. A lesbian professor...
by jstewardfree | May 25, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Alan Levinovitz | Food seems simple to study. If we can put a man on the moon, transplant a heart, and manipulate DNA, then surely we can unpack the relationship between eating vegetables and living longer. There’s no obvious difficulty in figuring out if wine...
