by Publius | Aug 4, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Politics and Goverment
By Emina Melonic | (Source) In Todd Haynes’ 1995 film, “Safe,” Julianne Moore plays an affluent housewife, Carol White. Carol leads a comfortable life with her husband and stepson. They live in an upscale home with a servant; she spends her days gardening, taking...
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 | Jun 9, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mark Mercer | (Source) To my students: University students should be free from threat of institutional censure to state any opinion they wish and to state their opinions using whatever language they wish. At our university, however, students do not enjoy this...
by Publius | Jun 2, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mark Bauerlein | (Source) As many of our readers who are parents know, it’s college planning time, and high school seniors scanning the amenities of the campuses they’ve chosen may be surprised by a particular feature they hadn’t expected: dorms and events for...
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...
