Is This the Brave New World We Want?

by jstewardfree | Sep 9, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Natural Science

By Hal Boyd and Alan J. Hawkins | (Source)  In her recent New York Times article, “The Poly-Parent Households Are Coming,” Professor Debora L. Spar of Harvard Business School seems eager to welcome what she paints as the inevitable arrival of poly-parenting—babies...

The Subtle Tyranny Of The ‘Expert’ Class

by jstewardfree | May 27, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment

By Lewis M. Andrews | (Source)  Three recent developments have raised the issue of whether social media should be able to censor opinions that differ from expert opinion.  The first involves YouTube’s decision to take down a widely circulated video by the co-owners of...

Those Who Lived to See Such Times

by jstewardfree | Mar 25, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter

By The Wade Center Blog | (Source)  The world is currently experiencing a unique and unsettling time with the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). As you are aware, most businesses have closures or limited services, cultural and social centers such as libraries and...

Understanding Why We Can’t Understand Each Other

by jstewardfree | Mar 4, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter

By Adam J. Macleod | (Source)  Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren threw kerosene on the culture war’s embers with a recent quip about marriage. An official for a sexual-identity activist group asked her what she would say to someone who believes that marriage is...

A Dead Man Won the Last Democratic Debate

by jstewardfree | Jan 22, 2020 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment

By  hot pictures lacolito80Deion A. Kathawa | (Source)  What’s striking about this election cycle’s Democratic presidential primary debates is how much they’ve been absolutely dominated by a man who’s been dead for 90 years. That man is Herbert Croly, the intellectual...