by Publius | Jun 24, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Hezekiah Kantor | (Source) The History Channel’s recent series about Ulysses S. Grant was produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and based on the best-selling biography by Ron Chernow. It concluded on Wednesday and was just about what one would expect from a film created...
by Publius | May 27, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Lewis M. Andrews | (Source) Three recent developments have raised the issue of whether social media should be able to censor opinions that differ from expert opinion. The first involves YouTube’s decision to take down a widely circulated video by the co-owners of...
by Publius | Apr 15, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Bradley J. Birzer| (Source) America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration that Defined It, C. Bradley Thompson, Encounter Books, 447 pages Imagine an academic world in which historians treated the American Founders...
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,...
