by Publius | Mar 6, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Leah Hickman| (Source) Since the United States Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, only seven of the 31 abortion cases to come before the high court had women as plaintiffs. All other plaintiffs have either been abortionists or abortion businesses. ...
by Publius | Mar 4, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Adam J. Macleod | (Source) Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren threw kerosene on the culture war’s embers with a recent quip about marriage. An official for a sexual-identity activist group asked her what she would say to someone who believes that marriage is...
by Publius | Feb 26, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mary Eberstadt| (Source) This essay is adapted from a speech delivered January 25, 2020, at the first annual meeting of The David Project, a new pro-life organization whose members represent every Ivy League campus. Who are the true radicals of our time? Not...
by Publius | Feb 19, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Megan Briggs | (Source) Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and former president of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), delivered a timely speech at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on February 6, 2020. Brooks,...
by Publius | Feb 12, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By Dennis Prager | (Source) I began part one of “Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?” with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America). The rates of suicide,...
by Publius | Feb 5, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By Jean Twenge | (Source) We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter. Since 2010, depression, self-harm and suicide rates have increased among teen boys. But rates of major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased...
