by jstewardfree | Sep 21, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Mark Meckler | On September 11, 2001, the first successful counterattack of our long war against Islamic jihad was launched not by the United States military, but by a small, spontaneously formed, self-governing group of American citizens who possessed the courage...
by jstewardfree | Sep 9, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Michael Metzger | If a recent New York Times article describing Amazon’s culture is anywhere close to the truth, Amazon is not a healthy place to work. In fact, it’s more like the Hunger Games. A few weeks back, NYT reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld wrote...
by jstewardfree | Sep 7, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates
In the American political system, does your individual vote matter? How is political power distributed throughout the nation’s citizenry? Consider a number of possible ways to approach this compelling question. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to...
by jstewardfree | Sep 7, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Jonathan V. Last | You may recall Brendan Eich. The cofounder and CEO of Mozilla was dismissed from his company in 2014 when it was discovered that, six years earlier, he had donated $1,000 to California’s Proposition 8 campaign. That ballot initiative, limiting...
by jstewardfree | Sep 2, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Kim Lewis | The UN’s International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that forced labor generated annual profits of $150 billion in 2014. They also believe that one quarter of the world’s 20.9 million victims of human trafficking are children. The National...
by jstewardfree | Aug 31, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Greg Scandlen | Protestant missionaries played an integral role in spreading democracy throughout the world. We could preserve our own if we learn from their ways. It has long been evident to me that the most successful societies in the world are former British...
