by Publius | May 19, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By Casey Chalk | (Source) Consensual nonmonogamy, or “CNM,” is on the rise among the meritocratic elite. A 2016 survey of about 9,000 single American adults showed that one in five had previously been in a CNM relationship. A 2017 survey in Canada discovered similar...
by Publius | Aug 12, 2020 | Family, Grey Matter, Natural Science
By James Gallagher | (Source) The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a “jaw-dropping” impact on societies, say researchers. Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking...
by Publius | Jul 22, 2020 | Family, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Wesley J. Smith | (Source) Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. The...
by Publius | Jun 10, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By John V. Fleming | (Source) During this pandemic, which has been documented nearly to exhaustion, two themes have captured my attention. The first is the difference between old and new plagues; the second is the literary history of pestilence. As a college...
by Publius | May 6, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By Annie Holmquist | (Source) A few years ago, my church nursery had an influx of little boys, all born within a few months of each other. Nursery duty in the weeks before that cadre outgrew it was, well… energetic. Everything was visibly quieter when they left. The...