by Publius | May 12, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Micah Meadowcroft | (Source) Everyone wants to be special, but they also want to be normal. This is not only the paradox of life in mass society, but that of human nature, too. We learn to desire what others desire. Our forms of rebellion against the conventional...
by Publius | Apr 28, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Carl Trueman | (Source) Karl Marx looked at the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century and declared that all that was solid seemed to be melting into air, but witnesses of the Cultural Revolution of the twenty-first century might be tempted to respond...
by Publius | Apr 21, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Wenyuan Wu | (Source) I spent my early years believing in a euphonious lie that modern China was beautifully multicultural, with all its 56 ethnic groups living as one family in utter adoration of the motherland. This patriotic belief, consolidated through years...
by Publius | Apr 14, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Victor Davis Hanson | (Source) “Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses,...
by Publius | Apr 7, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) During my fifty years teaching anthropology at McGill University, my impression of undergraduate students was of reasonable young people, many of whom were seriously engaged in learning about the world and its peoples. Graduate...
by Publius | Mar 24, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Serena Sigillito and Robert P. George | (Source) Where there is a mutual commitment to truth and truth-seeking, relationships can be built between religious believers and secularists, and they can indeed reason together. The minimum condition is this:...
