by jstewardfree | Jul 15, 2015 | Grey Matter
“To know the comic we must know the rational.” —Molière By Anthony Sacramone | So everyone’s heard by now that Jerry Seinfeld has joined the chorus of comics disturbed by the censorious culture on college campuses, such that they are refusing to play these venues...
by jstewardfree | Jul 13, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Shane Morris | In “The Screwtape Letters,” C. S. Lewis describes through the mouth of his professorial senior demon something he calls “the Materialist Magician”: “I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise...
by jstewardfree | Jul 13, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Should ideas be censored by governments? And book distributors? Consider the curious case of Apple vs The Manhattan Declaration. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for...
by jstewardfree | Jul 8, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Anthony Esolen | “We participate in being without remainder,” says the aging Reverend John Ames, the narrator in Marilynne Robinson’s wise and theologically meditative novel Gilead. The mystery of being is inexhaustible. Ames looks out his window at his small son...
by jstewardfree | Jul 6, 2015 | Grey Matter
By George Will | From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted...
by jstewardfree | Jul 2, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Was America founded on the basis of Judeo-Christian principles, or is that simply a fabrication by Evangelicals? Consider the case made by scholars on both sides of the question. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class here to learn more...
