by Publius | Aug 25, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Jeremy Adams | (Source) “Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude.” – David Hume When I was a boy, my father’s favorite day of the school year was not the last day, but the day before his students...
by Publius | Aug 18, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Emina Melonic | (Source) The experience of information consumption has undergone a drastic devolution. News works on the principle of transience; but, if you will pardon the pun, this isn’t news to anyone. In the past, most people were able to differentiate...
by Publius | Jul 7, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Micah Meadowcroft | (Source) I don’t think it will come as too much of a surprise to anyone if I say that in high school I was a dedicated fan of the band Mumford & Sons. Americana instrumental flourishes (banjo rock solos) paired with a decidedly Anglo...
by Publius | Jun 23, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Douglas Blair | (Source) In a social engineering move that seems straight out of the pages of George Orwell, Google recently introduced an update to its Google Docs platform that encourages users to use more “inclusive” language. Inclusive language advocates...
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...
