by jstewardfree | Nov 6, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Barry Brownstein | (Source) When I viewed this video, I wondered if it was a hoax. I thought it must be a group of actors trying to make a point about how far restrictions on speech have gone. Unfortunately, the video captures reality in Scotland in 2019. The...
by jstewardfree | Oct 30, 2019 | Contemporary Culture, Economics and Enterprise, Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet & Maria Baer | (Source) Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez successfully grabbed another headline last week by tweeting that Americans should have a “real conversation” about abolishing prisons. Though she did later walk back this bone-toss...
by jstewardfree | Oct 23, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) Reports tell us that church attendance among Americans is falling. I am acquainted with secular professors who apparently have learned nothing from the experiences of atheistic social experiments in the last century. Social experiments, I...
by jstewardfree | Oct 16, 2019 | Family, Grey Matter
By Patrick Lee | (Source) In Human Embryos, Human Beings, A Scientific and Philosophical Approach philosopher Samuel Condic and Neurobiologist Maureen Condic advance a careful and detailed case for the proposition that a human being comes to be at fertilization,...
by jstewardfree | Oct 9, 2019 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter
By Jason Morgan | (Source) During a layover on a recent trip, I was browsing the paperbacks and magazines at one of the outlandishly overpriced bodegas that one finds in any airport in America nowadays. Apart from the usual glut of faux-angsty pulp novels and...
by jstewardfree | Oct 2, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment, Posts
By Sophia Lee | (Source) In February 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quietly changed its mission statement, removing a description of the United States as “a nation of immigrants.” The change reflected a shift in our government’s...