by jstewardfree | Feb 21, 2014 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Is the academy re-writing history? Can we really know what happened in the past? Does truth change over time? Consider these important questions from several current positions with other free thinkers. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the...
by jstewardfree | Feb 21, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | What’s been perhaps the greatest force for democracy and freedom in the world? It was a world in which the gods “were everywhere and thought to be undependable.” That’s because, apart from “some magical powers” and “perhaps the gift of immortality,”...
by jstewardfree | Feb 18, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Gina Diorio | Confirming the pro-life trend of recent years, a new report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute shows that the abortion rate nationwide has fallen to its lowest point since 1973, the year the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortion legal. According...
by jstewardfree | Feb 17, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Carolyn Gregoire | “You shouldn’t enter college worried about what you will do when you exit,” David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, said at a World Economic Forum panel discussion last week on the state of the humanities. These words may be comforting...
by jstewardfree | Feb 14, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Andree Seu Peterson | We got whacked with snow a week ago, first the soft kind (good for shoveling but bad for snowmen), then the wet kind (backbreaking for shoveling, but we got two cool snowmen out of it). After clearing my own little piece of the American dream,...
by jstewardfree | Feb 14, 2014 | Course and Scholarship Updates
We hear a great deal about “progress” in our day, but are things on the whole getting better? By what measure can we judge the answer to this question? Think about this basic question with other free thinking people. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT...
