by Publius | Feb 24, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) Our current monomaniacal obsession with identity was midwifed by postmodern theory. In the past, students of society and culture emulated science in theory and methodology, striving to offer objective, disinterested, and impartial...
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 | Jan 27, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Victor Davis Hanson | (Source) Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly...
by Publius | Jan 20, 2021 | Family, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Malcolm Salovaara | (Source) Sometime during college, I decided to become a farmer. Upon graduating, I moved back in with my parents and began to farm their sixty-acre property. Although I did not know it at the time–indeed, I believed my unusual decision to be...
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...
