by Publius | Nov 25, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By James D. Agresti | (Source) In an effort to combat racial discrimination the San Diego Unified School District last week announced plans to abolish the traditional grading system, Fox News reports. USA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress...
by Publius | Nov 18, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Richard M. Reinsch II | (Source) Through the sweeping and indiscriminate indictment of oppression that it makes against the American republic, wokeism poses the first serious challenge to our constitutional democracy since Communism. Wokeism aims to remake...
by Publius | Oct 21, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Paul Kengor| (Source) “In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly odd start for a classic on the Soviet gulag, the...
by Publius | Oct 7, 2020 | Family, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Clara E. Jace | (Source) Soviet misunderstandings of the market were replicated as misunderstandings of the family—with damaging and dehumanizing consequences. Though Soviet family policy has mercifully ended, it is still worthwhile to examine its central ideas,...
by Publius | Sep 23, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) My experience,” wrote Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery, “is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what color of skin merit is found. I have found, too,...
by Publius | Sep 16, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Various | (Source) We wish to offer some thoughts and advice to students who are or will soon be attending colleges and universities in these times of strife and polarization. We particularly address those whose beliefs are out of step with the dominant opinion on...