"Let's not miss the point on why the Gardasil mandate is so outrageous," write Alyssa Cordova, the Luce Institute's Lecture Director. "HPV is not something caught from a casual encounter like the flue, measles, mumps or rubella. It's a sexually transmitted disease!" 
"Many young people celebrated with the president when he signed 'Obamacare' into law in 2010," writes high school student and Luce Institute intern Carolina Lulli, "unaware of the hovering short- and long-term consequences for college students." As details of the law become better known, Carolina finds more for her peers to fear than cheer.
The president is trying to hide from his "signature achievement" in the hope that the revolt against the unpopular health care overhaul that swept conservatives into power across the country in November 2010 isn't repeated in 2012, writes Grace-Marie Turner. If the law is left in place, the American people will get a shocking awakening in 2014 when...
National security analyst K.T. McFarland recalls the many acts of selflessness she encountered as New Yorkers struggled to cope with the unfolding events of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. We are never powerless, she writes; everyone can do something. Imagine that you have a new cell phone, and you ask me how to make a call. I tell you to punch in a phone number, then rub the phone against your leg and fling it against the wall. Did your call go through? No? Okay, I say, now try it again -- but this time fling your phone harder. Your call still didn't go through? Would you like to try it a third time? Or have you finally figured out that I have no idea what I'm talking about; that if you keep listening to me you're going to break your phone...
