Was America’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, a greedy robber baron, a generous philanthropist, or both? And did the oil tycoon exploit America’s poor or give them access to much-needed energy? Historian and Hillsdale College professor Burt Folsom, author of “The Myth of the Robber Barons,” reveals the truth about the Rockefeller empire.
Category: Education
Should offensive speech be banned? Where should we, as a society, draw the line where permitted speech is on one side, and forbidden speech is on the other? Should we even have that line? And should free speech be limited by things like trigger warnings and punishments for microaggressions? Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, answers these questions and more.
Here’s a live commercial from THE PERRY COMO SHOW in 1950 for the complete line of Polaroid cameras featuring spokesperson Don Ameche touting the merits of “instant photography.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=164&v=EBzTGv3oqmA
Front (l-r): Aubrey Schmitt, Regan Jones, Haley Snyder, Cailey McClellon.
Back (l-r): Gradin Schroeder, Cameron Guihan, Chase Williams, Devon Rouse.
Everybody loves trees, so why are they so controversial? Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore untangles the knotty issue of “deforestation” and shows how, from a purely environmental perspective, it is possible and desirable to grow more trees and use more wood products.
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme Court’s record when it comes to protecting our rights? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, answers these questions and more.