by jstewardfree | Apr 30, 2014 | Grey Matter
C. S. Lewis sounds this warning in a 1939 essay recently collected and published in Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews by C. S. Lewis (page 22): Education is essentially for freemen and vocational training for slaves. That is how they were distributed in the...
by jstewardfree | Apr 28, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger | I recently read an intriguing column, The End of Mass Production, by technology author and columnist Kevin Maney. I first met Maney several years ago when he was at USA Today, and have always enjoyed his columns and books. The mass...
by jstewardfree | Apr 23, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria | Suey Park, a 23-year-old self-professed activist known on Twitter for the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which provided Asian women a space to discuss and vent the limiting and often stereotyped perceptions of Asians in popular culture,...
by jstewardfree | Apr 21, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Patrick J. Buchanan | In the last stanza of “The Battle of Blenheim,” Robert Southey writes: ‘But what good came of it at last?’ Quoth little Peterkin. ‘Why, that I cannot tell,’ said he; ‘But ’twas a famous victory.’ What did it really matter? The poet was asking...
by jstewardfree | Apr 16, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Bernie Reeves | Recently, a caller to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR repeated the statistic that one in four young women is raped on American college campuses each year. Rehm’s guest, former president Jimmy Carter, actually had said sexual abuse, not rape, but neither...
by jstewardfree | Apr 14, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Russell Nieli | Modern rhetoric of income inequality is driven by covetous envy that betrays America’s tradition of applauding those who succeed. Caritas, humility, gratitude, and goodwill toward others are a healthy society’s answer to the ancient curses of envy...
