by jstewardfree | Sep 23, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) My experience,” wrote Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery, “is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what color of skin merit is found. I have found, too,...
by jstewardfree | Aug 26, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Richard L. Cravatts | (Source) The death of a black man under the knee of a brutal police officer in Minneapolis sent shock waves of racial guilt throughout America. Protestors, led principally by Black Lives Matter, took to the streets to malign America’s...
by jstewardfree | Aug 5, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter
By Victor Davis Hanson | (Source) A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics. She won a huge...
by jstewardfree | Jul 29, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Matt Purple | (Source) Things move quickly though not evenly. Last week, more statues of American and Confederate figures were torn down, another riot broke out in Portland, there were rumblings that Hamilton might be next on the cancel list, and the California...
by jstewardfree | Jul 1, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter
By James Hankins| (Source) At Harvard, faculty independence has gradually been undermined; we are all worker bees now, serving the monstrous regiment of bureaucrats. We have in the latest version of our General Education curriculum what is essentially a glorified...
by jstewardfree | 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...
