by Publius | May 12, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Micah Meadowcroft | (Source) Everyone wants to be special, but they also want to be normal. This is not only the paradox of life in mass society, but that of human nature, too. We learn to desire what others desire. Our forms of rebellion against the conventional...
by Publius | Apr 21, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Wenyuan Wu | (Source) I spent my early years believing in a euphonious lie that modern China was beautifully multicultural, with all its 56 ethnic groups living as one family in utter adoration of the motherland. This patriotic belief, consolidated through years...
by Publius | Apr 7, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) During my fifty years teaching anthropology at McGill University, my impression of undergraduate students was of reasonable young people, many of whom were seriously engaged in learning about the world and its peoples. Graduate...
by Publius | Mar 10, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Peter J. Leithart | (Source) These remarks were delivered at the Theopolis Epiphany Feast, held in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 29, 2021. “How lonely sits the city that was once so full of people” (Lamentations 1:1). “Then I will eliminate from the cities of...
by Publius | Dec 23, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By David Butterfield | (Source) “A habit of mind is formed which lasts through life, of which the attributes are freedom, equitableness, calmness, moderation, and wisdom . . . This is the main purpose of a University in its treatment of its students.” —J. H....
by Publius | Nov 18, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Richard M. Reinsch II | (Source) Through the sweeping and indiscriminate indictment of oppression that it makes against the American republic, wokeism poses the first serious challenge to our constitutional democracy since Communism. Wokeism aims to remake...
