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 | Feb 10, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Peter J. Leithart | (Source) Modernization involves multiple accelerations, says the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa in his 2010 book, Acceleration and Alienation. Advanced technology speeds up movement and communication, and the rate of technological change...
by Publius | Feb 3, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Politics and Goverment
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) I must apologize at the outset for offering to the reader what is by now a truism known to everybody who has had even short periods of sobriety during the last decade. Whatever imaginings the reader may have had during the twentieth...
by Publius | Jan 13, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Philip Carl Salzman| (Source) In an otherwise excellent article ridiculing another journalist who was “canceling” restauranteurs with the wrong ethnicity for the ethnic food they were producing, Jonathan Kay expressed his perplexity about the meaning of “cultural...
by Publius | Dec 31, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Walter E. Williams | (Source) Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system. What it found was an utter disgrace. In 19 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were...
by Publius | Dec 9, 2020 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Nicole Russell | (Source) The mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, announced on Twitter just after his reelection that the City Council approved a removal of “gendered language”—meaning feminine and masculine terms—from the city charter, according to the The Daily...
