by jstewardfree | Sep 23, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Lee Siegel | Fewer and fewer undergraduates are majoring in the humanities, and critic Lee Siegel couldn’t be happier. As he tells WSJ’s Gary Rosen, great poetry and novels are meant to be experienced in private and alone, away from the competitive pressures of the...
by jstewardfree | Sep 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Samuel Klee We’ve all heard it—life is far easier now than “back in the day” when our grandparents were young. I admit, those words may contain some degree of truth; at school, research no longer requires laborious pilgrimages to musty library crypts, and I shall...
by jstewardfree | Sep 16, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Amy Payne | This past week in The New York Times—on September 11, no less—Russian President Vladimir Putin took issue with the idea of American exceptionalism. He wrote: It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the...
by jstewardfree | Sep 12, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Neil Irwin | If you only looked at the headlines on Friday’s August jobs numbers, you’d think “Not bad!” You would also be completely wrong. Yes, the unemployment rate fell a notch to 7.3 percent, from 7.4 percent in July. Yes, the nation added 169,000 jobs,...
by jstewardfree | Sep 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Nico Perrino | As college students head back to campus this fall, they face a multitude of threats to their fundamental freedoms. Unconstitutional “free speech zones” and demonstration policies restrict when and where students can speak. New federal rules...
by jstewardfree | Sep 9, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Thomas Messner | Legislation “cruising” through the California legislature would strip certain state-level tax exemptions from nonprofit youth groups that differentiate on “gender identity,” “sexual orientation,” and other bases. The bill names familiar youth...
