by jstewardfree | Nov 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Janie B. Cheaney | There’s a fight going on in the pages of The New Republic. Over the last couple of months, evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has been duking it out with Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the magazine, over two great human endeavors: In...
by jstewardfree | Nov 8, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Anthony Esolen | In October, 1919, a heavily “progressive” Congress passed the Volstead Act enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting, for almost all purposes, the production, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. There are two things everybody has...
by jstewardfree | Oct 23, 2013 | Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet | We’ve all heard there are no bad questions… well, that isn’t exactly true. In fact, the very first question was bad…. In his classic work, Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton talks about an English yachtsman who, thinking he had discovered an island...
by jstewardfree | Oct 18, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
How reliable are current methods of dating evidence from the past? Dig into the strata of scientific data with dinosaurs, geologic epochs, and Newton’s laws. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these...
by jstewardfree | Oct 3, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Are there limits to what the scientific method and discovery can teach us? Does science require insight from outside the natural sciences? AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences, which...
