by jstewardfree | Dec 18, 2019 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet | (Source) Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is known for trolling the art world. One his projects featured an 18-karat-gold toilet. The toilet, valued at $6 million, was stolen in September. His newest project sold for $120,000 but didn’t fare...
by jstewardfree | Dec 11, 2019 | Grey Matter, Religion and Theology
By Annie Holmquist | (Source) During the holiday season I usually come across at least one social media picture of families seeking to give back. This can be through serving a meal at a homeless shelter, volunteering at Feed My Starving Children, or even packing a...
by jstewardfree | Dec 4, 2019 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By John Leo | (Source) The mainstream press has not shown much interest in the struggle of college journalists to report accurately on free-speech and free-press issues on campus. On November 13, The New York Times weighed in with a long news article on student...
by jstewardfree | Nov 27, 2019 | Economics and Enterprise, Grey Matter
By David Noonan | (Source) The recipe for succeeding in any given field is hardly a mystery: good ideas, hard work, discipline, imagination, perseverance and maybe a little luck. Oh, and let’s not forget failure, which Dashun Wang and his colleagues at Northwestern...
by jstewardfree | Nov 20, 2019 | Family, Grey Matter
By Melissa Moschella | (Source) Given the risks of assisted reproductive technologies and gene-editing technologies for both individuals and society as a whole, a hands-off, libertarian approach to these issues is ethically irresponsible. Because these technologies...
by jstewardfree | Nov 13, 2019 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Natural Science
By Roberto Rivera | (Source) Last week, more than 11 thousand scientists issued a report entitled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” The message of the report was that the planet is on the brink of a “catastrophic ‘hothouse Earth,’ well beyond the...
