by Publius | Dec 4, 2019 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By John Leo | (Source) The mainstream press has not shown much interest in the struggle of college journalists to report accurately on free-speech and free-press issues on campus. On November 13, The New York Times weighed in with a long news article on student...
by Publius | Nov 27, 2019 | Economics and Enterprise, Grey Matter
By David Noonan | (Source) The recipe for succeeding in any given field is hardly a mystery: good ideas, hard work, discipline, imagination, perseverance and maybe a little luck. Oh, and let’s not forget failure, which Dashun Wang and his colleagues at Northwestern...
by Publius | Nov 20, 2019 | Family, Grey Matter
By Melissa Moschella | (Source) Given the risks of assisted reproductive technologies and gene-editing technologies for both individuals and society as a whole, a hands-off, libertarian approach to these issues is ethically irresponsible. Because these technologies...
by Publius | Nov 13, 2019 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Natural Science
By Roberto Rivera | (Source) Last week, more than 11 thousand scientists issued a report entitled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” The message of the report was that the planet is on the brink of a “catastrophic ‘hothouse Earth,’ well beyond the...
by Publius | Nov 6, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Barry Brownstein | (Source) When I viewed this video, I wondered if it was a hoax. I thought it must be a group of actors trying to make a point about how far restrictions on speech have gone. Unfortunately, the video captures reality in Scotland in 2019. The...
