by jstewardfree | Jan 28, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Mitchell E. Daniels | In 2010-13, the percentage of younger people owning part of a new business dropped to 3.6% from 6.1%. To the growing catalog of damage caused by the decades-long run-up in the cost of higher education, we may have to add another casualty. On...
by jstewardfree | Jan 26, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Ashley Bateman | When I was unborn, test results showed me likely to have Down Syndrome. Parents abort most babies like me nowadays. That’s why I march for life. Every January, beginning on a Monday, a great, collective memory of marches resonates throughout our...
by jstewardfree | Jan 19, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates, Grey Matter
There is this beautifully animated video acting out a well articulated section of Dr Brené Brown’s lecture on the difference between an empathetic and a sympathetic response from the RSA. The video (see below) neatly wraps up a difficult subject to pinpoint the...
by jstewardfree | Jan 14, 2015 | Grey Matter
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD....
by jstewardfree | Jan 12, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Prof Jack Lewis | Democracy works when most of the people, most of the time, choose to obey the law. Religious freedom in America is not about being free from religion, but being freed from a particular religious mandate. Watch as Harvard Business School...
by jstewardfree | Jan 7, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Charles Murray | I’ll cut President Obama some slack. When he said that women staying at home with the kids is “not a choice we want Americans to make,” I assume he meant that it shouldn’t be a choice that women are forced to make. Even so, I have a beef with the...
