by Publius | Jun 24, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Hezekiah Kantor | (Source) The History Channel’s recent series about Ulysses S. Grant was produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and based on the best-selling biography by Ron Chernow. It concluded on Wednesday and was just about what one would expect from a film created...
by Publius | Jun 10, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By John V. Fleming | (Source) During this pandemic, which has been documented nearly to exhaustion, two themes have captured my attention. The first is the difference between old and new plagues; the second is the literary history of pestilence. As a college...
by Publius | Jun 3, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter
By Walter E. Williams | (Source) Black politicians, civil rights leaders, and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what’s no less than an education crisis among black students. In city after city with...
by Publius | 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...
by Publius | May 20, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Bradley J. Birzer | (Source) Better to go out with a bang than a wimper? Dating back to the roots of Christianity we have always been obsessed with ‘The End.’ In the year 793, Catholic monks made the following report, all of it disturbing. “In this...
