by Libertad | Jul 7, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By Angelo M. Codevilla | Understanding one’s own country is the indispensable prerequisite for dealing with others. Necessarily, the way we deal with foreigners follows from how we understand what America itself is about, and generally how we believe we should relate...
by Libertad | Jun 28, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By David Harsanyi | The American middle class is disappearing. This is what everyone says, all the time. Although the notion propels many political debates, it’s simply not true. At the very least, it’s a debatable proposition. Yet I can’t remember a single...
by Libertad | Jun 4, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By Steve Balch | Among academics, the term “Western civilization,” once totemic, has grown impolite. To use it without sneer or smirk can rouse suspicions of Eurocentrism or even bigotry. Many academics who think themselves “Progressive” today equate Western...
by Libertad | May 24, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By Andy Kessler | Debt-laden graduates, affluent alumni, birds-of-a-feather faculty and tuition-burdened parents: I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I won’t be sucking up to you with the same old graduation platitudes. You should have invited Oprah: “How do you know when...
by Libertad | May 13, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By Nicholas Kristof | WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives. Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that...