by Publius | Oct 21, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Paul Kengor| (Source) “In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly odd start for a classic on the Soviet gulag, the...
by Publius | Oct 14, 2020 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Joshua Mitchell | (Source) It’s not good for man to be alone, yet modern life conspires to produce just such a condition. “Social distancing” is more than just a response to a pandemic; it is the centrifugal force in modern life. Americans play their part in this...
by Publius | Oct 7, 2020 | Family, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Clara E. Jace | (Source) Soviet misunderstandings of the market were replicated as misunderstandings of the family—with damaging and dehumanizing consequences. Though Soviet family policy has mercifully ended, it is still worthwhile to examine its central ideas,...
by Publius | Sep 30, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Politics and Goverment
By Margaret McCarthy | (Source) Central to the evil of slavery was its attempt to exterminate the black family. Slave traders took children from their parents. Slave-owners deprived men and women of the right to wed and then even used them as studs and breeders to...
by Publius | Sep 23, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) My experience,” wrote Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery, “is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what color of skin merit is found. I have found, too,...
