by jstewardfree | Dec 19, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | Choosing Our Extinction | Whatever your political persuasion, chances are that you believe in choice. Those who favor the right to kill unborn human beings in the womb, of course, characterize their position with the appealing vocabulary of...
by jstewardfree | Dec 18, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Publius | Ross Douthat has written insightfully about the Newtown massacre in the NY Times. Citing Dostoevksy’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” he talks about the Christian response to suffering: “…the Christmas story isn’t just the manger and...
by jstewardfree | Dec 15, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Hephzibah Anderson | At the end of the day, sometimes you’ve just got to think inside the box. In the past week, I have taken a rain check, stared down the elephant in the room, and been my own worst enemy in more ways than one. I am not proud. As Nigel Fountain,...
by jstewardfree | Dec 13, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Robert Paquette | Dealing with the new term, “College Sustainability.” The word “sustainability,” like the words “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” has acquired totemic status on college campuses. Go to your favorite college website, look under...
by jstewardfree | Dec 12, 2012 | Grey Matter
By TheCollegeFix staff | A new Pew Research poll shows that in the wake of record levels of spending and more than $16 trillion in government debt, the Obama administration’s move to increase the role of government in citizen’s lives is having its desired effect: It...
by jstewardfree | Dec 10, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Ryan Lovelace | A political science professor at Butler University asks students to disregard their “American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status” when writing and speaking in the classroom – a practice the school’s arts and sciences...
