by jstewardfree | Nov 12, 2014 | Grey Matter
Editor’s note: This is the second of two blogs covering Dr. Lawler’s article from the Federalist.com. The first half can be read here. By Peter Lawler The Technocrat’s Brand of Diversity The technological criticism of political correctness is true...
by jstewardfree | Nov 10, 2014 | Grey Matter
This is the first of two consecutive blog posts by Dr. Lawler in which he examines liberal education and the modern “efficient” education. By Peter Lawler | One of the great prejudices of our time is that direct information is king. But the great books...
by jstewardfree | Nov 5, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Peter Augustine Lawler | The highly rated CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory compensates for its lack of refinement (it has a laugh track!) with its brains. The show began with characters who were more like caricatures of four types of physical scientists: the...
by jstewardfree | Nov 3, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Rod Dreher | I was late coming to Dante. Never read him in high school or college, and after my formal education ended with my bachelor’s degree, why on earth would I have bothered? As a professional journalist, I read voraciously, but a seven-hundred-year-old poem...
by jstewardfree | Oct 29, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Anthony Esolen | The secular state cannot be neutral in matters of religion. We have all heard what has come to be a liberal dictum, that the State must remain neutral as regards religion or irreligion. One can show fairly easily that the men who wrote our...
by jstewardfree | Oct 27, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Seth Godin | When the masses only connect to the net without a keyboard, who will be left to change the world? It is possible but unlikely that someone will write a great novel on a tablet. You can’t create the spreadsheet that changes an industry on a smart...