by jstewardfree | Jan 15, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Marvin Olasky | Not only donors practice what Charles Dickens satirized as “telescopic philanthropy.” Professors wise in their own eyes fall into it as well. Dickens wrote of Mrs. Jellyby, a Londoner devoted day and night to the fictional “Borrioboola-Gha Venture,”...
by jstewardfree | Dec 26, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Can diversity be created through college entrance parameters? Consider the real nature of diversity through a study at Bowdoin College. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free...
by jstewardfree | Nov 13, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Marvin Olasky | If Fox Sports had fired football analyst Craig James because he went off on an anti-homosexual tirade during a game broadcast, that would be fair. But when James in 2012 said gay civil unions are wrong, homosexuality is “a choice,” and gays will...
by jstewardfree | Oct 30, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark Regnerus | A new academic study based on the Canadian census suggests that a married mom and dad matter for children. Children of same-sex coupled households do not fare as well. There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate...
by jstewardfree | Oct 2, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | For decades, even centuries, we’ve been warned that overpopulation will lead to mass starvation. But the cataclysm has yet to come…. If there is ever a Hall of Fame for Pernicious Ideas, Thomas Malthus’s “An Essay on the Principle of...