by Publius | Oct 21, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Paul Kengor| (Source) “In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly odd start for a classic on the Soviet gulag, the...
by Publius | Oct 7, 2020 | Family, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Clara E. Jace | (Source) Soviet misunderstandings of the market were replicated as misunderstandings of the family—with damaging and dehumanizing consequences. Though Soviet family policy has mercifully ended, it is still worthwhile to examine its central ideas,...
by Publius | Sep 30, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Politics and Goverment
By Margaret McCarthy | (Source) Central to the evil of slavery was its attempt to exterminate the black family. Slave traders took children from their parents. Slave-owners deprived men and women of the right to wed and then even used them as studs and breeders to...
by Publius | Aug 19, 2020 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Ilana Mercer | (Source) The fact that socialists and Communists are still voted into power with swagger; the fact that this creed’s savage foot soldiers—Black Lives Matter and Antifa—are cast as pacifists, seekers of equity and justice demonstrates that...
by Publius | 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 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...