by jstewardfree | Jan 26, 2013 | Grey Matter
By The Clapham Institute | “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” wrote George Orwell, who warned of governments resorting to “long words and exhausted idioms” to mask unsavory behavior. With Orwell in mind, you might want to see...
by jstewardfree | Jan 24, 2013 | Grey Matter
“To an American, the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one’s mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright.”...
by jstewardfree | Jan 21, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Chuck Colson | The Good Society and the Moral Law. More than forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They marched here for the cause of civil rights. And that day they heard Martin Luther King Jr....
by jstewardfree | Jan 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Richard Vedder | Higher education is in a bubble situation—its price has risen sharply, fueled by cheap federal loan and grant money (sound familiar?) while the return on the investment has fallen. More and more college students are either not graduating or are...
by jstewardfree | Jan 15, 2013 | Grey Matter
By J.A. Cauthen | A former history instructor at the Naval Academy reflects on the problems of the diversity obsession. Diversity, as commonly used by government, academia, and industry, has become so normalized that we are all expected to embrace it unquestioningly....
by jstewardfree | Jan 14, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Publius | This is the last of our three posts from Victor Davis Hanson’s essay on re-thinking the modern university. Imagine the concept of student loans transferred to the car industry (or, perhaps, just think Freddie and Fannie). The government would...
