by Publius | Mar 3, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Ben Sixsmith | (Source) Communism came to Hungary as the Iron Curtain lowered across Central and Eastern Europe. The communists lost the post-war elections but gained power with what they called “salami tactics”: dividing and conquering their democratic opponents....
by Publius | Feb 24, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) Our current monomaniacal obsession with identity was midwifed by postmodern theory. In the past, students of society and culture emulated science in theory and methodology, striving to offer objective, disinterested, and impartial...
by Publius | Feb 17, 2021 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Christopher M. England | (Source) As the United States muddles through a global pandemic and the aftermath of a contested election, it is hard to avoid a sense that the country is now suffused by a spirit of grievance and revenge. Donald Trump’s call to “make...
by Publius | Jan 27, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Victor Davis Hanson | (Source) Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly...
by Publius | Jan 20, 2021 | Family, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Malcolm Salovaara | (Source) Sometime during college, I decided to become a farmer. Upon graduating, I moved back in with my parents and began to farm their sixty-acre property. Although I did not know it at the time–indeed, I believed my unusual decision to be...
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,...