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...
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...
by Publius | Oct 23, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) Reports tell us that church attendance among Americans is falling. I am acquainted with secular professors who apparently have learned nothing from the experiences of atheistic social experiments in the last century. Social experiments, I...
by Publius | Oct 2, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment, Posts
By Sophia Lee | (Source) In February 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quietly changed its mission statement, removing a description of the United States as “a nation of immigrants.” The change reflected a shift in our government’s...
by Publius | Sep 11, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment, Posts
By Barry Brownstein | (Source) The world is not in danger of being overpopulated, so why do so many insist it is? Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by...
