by Publius | Feb 3, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Politics and Goverment
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) I must apologize at the outset for offering to the reader what is by now a truism known to everybody who has had even short periods of sobriety during the last decade. Whatever imaginings the reader may have had during the twentieth...
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...
by Publius | Dec 31, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Walter E. Williams | (Source) Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system. What it found was an utter disgrace. In 19 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were...
