by jstewardfree | Dec 4, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | Black Friday came a little early this year in Louisiana, with shoppers emptying store shelves. But why it happened says a lot about who we are as humans… On October 13, Wal-Mart shelves in Springhill and Mansfield, Louisiana, were stripped bare...
by jstewardfree | Dec 2, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Ben Velderman | Have you heard the one about the 115,520 janitors who have a college degree? That might sound like the setup for a joke, but it’s not. It’s a statistic from the U.S. Department of Labor, and it’s gotten a lot of attention as Americans are...
by jstewardfree | Nov 25, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Tim Challies | Of all the words coined in response to the realities of this digital world, of all the words recently added to the dictionary, humblebrag must be among the best. According to the Macmillan dictionary, a humblebrag is “a statement in which you pretend...
by jstewardfree | Nov 22, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Tyler Huckabee | 50 years after his death, Oxford’s lion roars on. Fifty years ago on November 22, C.S. Lewis quietly passed away in his home. His death went widely unnoticed, as JFK was assassinated on the same day (Brave New World author Aldous Huxley also died,...
by jstewardfree | Nov 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark Bauerlein | With yet another affirmative action case reaching the Supreme Court just months after the last decision, and with that previous decision likely to produce multiple local challenges to admissions procedures at selective colleges across the country,...
by jstewardfree | Nov 15, 2013 | Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet | According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 6.3 million of us have a diagnosed phobia—that is, an irrational, sometimes even debilitating, fear of something. It could be glossophobia, the fear of public speaking; or necrophobia, the...
