by Publius | Mar 6, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Leah Hickman| (Source) Since the United States Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, only seven of the 31 abortion cases to come before the high court had women as plaintiffs. All other plaintiffs have either been abortionists or abortion businesses. ...
by Publius | Feb 26, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mary Eberstadt| (Source) This essay is adapted from a speech delivered January 25, 2020, at the first annual meeting of The David Project, a new pro-life organization whose members represent every Ivy League campus. Who are the true radicals of our time? Not...
by Publius | Feb 19, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Megan Briggs | (Source) Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and former president of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), delivered a timely speech at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on February 6, 2020. Brooks,...
by Publius | Jan 22, 2020 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Deion A. Kathawa | (Source) What’s striking about this election cycle’s Democratic presidential primary debates is how much they’ve been absolutely dominated by a man who’s been dead for 90 years. That man is Herbert Croly, the intellectual godfather of the...
by Publius | Jan 15, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) I often file things that I read in my growing collection of 100-year-old magazines—in bound volumes, six months apiece, 1,000 large pages in small font—under the category, “Different World.” Such is an article from The Century...
by Publius | Jan 8, 2020 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Amanda Patchin | (Source) We wade through a torrent of words and images every day, and yet we mostly lack a clear understanding of what language is and can be for the human. The Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper’s slender little pamphlet Abuse of Language, Abuse...
