by jstewardfree | Oct 19, 2015 | Grey Matter
By David Brooks | Many American universities were founded as religious institutions, explicitly designed to cultivate their students’ spiritual and moral natures. But over the course of the 20th century they became officially or effectively secular. Religious rituals...
by jstewardfree | Oct 12, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Sean Davis | The debate over gun control and gun rights would be more productive if both sides focused on the facts instead of pushing myths about America’s gun laws. After every shooting, politicians and activists rush to the cameras or their keyboards to...
by jstewardfree | Aug 5, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Daniel B. Klein | Here I make a plea, addressed to conservatives and libertarians, regarding the word liberal: please do not describe leftists, progressives, social democrats, or Democrats as “liberal.” I do not ask that you describe yourself as “liberal.” Continue...
by jstewardfree | Jul 15, 2015 | Grey Matter
“To know the comic we must know the rational.” —Molière By Anthony Sacramone | So everyone’s heard by now that Jerry Seinfeld has joined the chorus of comics disturbed by the censorious culture on college campuses, such that they are refusing to play these venues...
by jstewardfree | Jul 13, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Shane Morris | In “The Screwtape Letters,” C. S. Lewis describes through the mouth of his professorial senior demon something he calls “the Materialist Magician”: “I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise...
