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 | Jul 15, 2020 | Economics and Enterprise, Grey Matter
By Walter Williams | (Source) Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century. On June 30, he completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North...
by Publius | Jul 8, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Nile Gardiner | (Source) The radical left has hijacked debate over America’s monuments to wage a cultural war. Their goal: to deny the moral legitimacy of our democratic republic. Violent attacks on statues and memorials aren’t mere vandalism. They are an assault...
by Publius | 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 Publius | Jun 24, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Hezekiah Kantor | (Source) The History Channel’s recent series about Ulysses S. Grant was produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and based on the best-selling biography by Ron Chernow. It concluded on Wednesday and was just about what one would expect from a film created...
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...
