by jstewardfree | May 5, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Barnabas Piper | DeSean Jackson is an explosive wide receiver known for big plays and blazing speed. Last season was the best of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles: He caught more than 80 passes for 1,300 yards and scored nine touchdowns. In this era of...
by jstewardfree | Apr 30, 2014 | Grey Matter
C. S. Lewis sounds this warning in a 1939 essay recently collected and published in Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews by C. S. Lewis (page 22): Education is essentially for freemen and vocational training for slaves. That is how they were distributed in the...
by jstewardfree | Apr 28, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger | I recently read an intriguing column, The End of Mass Production, by technology author and columnist Kevin Maney. I first met Maney several years ago when he was at USA Today, and have always enjoyed his columns and books. The mass...
by jstewardfree | Apr 23, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria | Suey Park, a 23-year-old self-professed activist known on Twitter for the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which provided Asian women a space to discuss and vent the limiting and often stereotyped perceptions of Asians in popular culture,...
by jstewardfree | Apr 2, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Jennifer A. Marshall | Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last night vetoed what should have been a straightforward religious freedom bill. Minor clarifications to existing law got lost in an avalanche of gross mischaracterization as national pundits predicted the bill would...