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 21, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Joseph Woodard | (Source) With typical ashen-gray melancholy, the old dean of St. John’s College once warned about the Great Books seminar: “You have to let a thousand golden moments just pass by… a thousand brilliant insights slip away…” Back then, I thought he...
by Publius | Mar 10, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Peter J. Leithart | (Source) These remarks were delivered at the Theopolis Epiphany Feast, held in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 29, 2021. “How lonely sits the city that was once so full of people” (Lamentations 1:1). “Then I will eliminate from the cities of...
by Publius | Oct 28, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Politics and Goverment
By John Stossel | (Source) Recently, I released a video that called California’s fires “government fueled.” A few days later, Facebook inserted a warning on my video: “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead.” Some of my...
by Publius | Sep 30, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Politics and Goverment
By Margaret McCarthy | (Source) Central to the evil of slavery was its attempt to exterminate the black family. Slave traders took children from their parents. Slave-owners deprived men and women of the right to wed and then even used them as studs and breeders to...
