by jstewardfree | May 12, 2014 | Grey Matter
By D.C. Innes | I own books. Many books. They are the tools of my academic trade. But they are also the highways of my political and even spiritual liberty. Access to my books is like my access to air. Seizing my books would be worse than placing me under house...
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 16, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Bernie Reeves | Recently, a caller to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR repeated the statistic that one in four young women is raped on American college campuses each year. Rehm’s guest, former president Jimmy Carter, actually had said sexual abuse, not rape, but neither...
by jstewardfree | Apr 9, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Patrick J. Deneen | Rarely do opinion pieces in college newspapers emerge as subjects of national controversy, but a recent essay by Harvard student Sandra Y.L. Korn has generated widespread denunciation among conservatives. Her essay—entitled “The Doctrine of...
by jstewardfree | Apr 7, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Robby Soave | Unlearning Liberty author interview: How college administrators murdered free speech. Perhaps nowhere are First Amendment values more imperiled than at the modern American college campus — the very place where free speech should be most dearly...