by Publius | Jan 24, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates
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by Prof. Jack Lewis | Nov 19, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Naomi Schaefer Riley | In the spring of 2014, the Harvard Extension School Cultural Studies Club decided to drop its sponsorship of a Black Mass, the satanic ritual in which people dress up as members of the clergy and defile a communion wafer, which Catholics...
by Prof. Jack Lewis | Oct 25, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Simon C.Y. Wong | Like many parents, I am troubled by the growing fixation with careers. We seem to be putting young people on the career treadmill at an earlier and earlier age. Choosing extracurricular activities, summer jobs, and even preschool is increasingly...
by Publius | Oct 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Joseph Knippenberg | I have mixed emotions about Troy University’s plan to offer faith-based campus housing. On the one hand, it seems like the careful kind of accommodation of faith in a public setting that I favor. The five-acre property is leased from the...
by Prof. Jack Lewis | Sep 27, 2013 | Grey Matter
By James Tonkowich | A dear friend’s daughter just graduated from a small, highly respected liberal arts college with her Bachelor of Arts in psychology “with all the honors, rights, and privileges to that degree appertaining.” What precisely those honors, rights and...