by Publius | May 5, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Anna Agresti | (Source) In her Advanced Placement government and politics class, a high school student named Anna was assigned to read a New York Times commentary that called the U.S. Constitution “imbecilic.” Many of her peers agreed with this conclusion based on...
by Publius | Apr 21, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Wenyuan Wu | (Source) I spent my early years believing in a euphonious lie that modern China was beautifully multicultural, with all its 56 ethnic groups living as one family in utter adoration of the motherland. This patriotic belief, consolidated through years...
by Publius | Apr 7, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Philip Carl Salzman | (Source) During my fifty years teaching anthropology at McGill University, my impression of undergraduate students was of reasonable young people, many of whom were seriously engaged in learning about the world and its peoples. Graduate...
by Publius | Mar 17, 2021 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Bryan Kerns | (Source) Teaching Augustine on a college campus is an especially interesting experience these days. I get to expose students to Augustine, his life, world, thought, assumptions, and influence, which is reward enough, but I also get to watch them...
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...
