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 14, 2020 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Joshua Mitchell | (Source) It’s not good for man to be alone, yet modern life conspires to produce just such a condition. “Social distancing” is more than just a response to a pandemic; it is the centrifugal force in modern life. Americans play their part in this...
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...
by Publius | Sep 9, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Natural Science
By Hal Boyd and Alan J. Hawkins | (Source) In her recent New York Times article, “The Poly-Parent Households Are Coming,” Professor Debora L. Spar of Harvard Business School seems eager to welcome what she paints as the inevitable arrival of poly-parenting—babies...
