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 | Jan 15, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) I often file things that I read in my growing collection of 100-year-old magazines—in bound volumes, six months apiece, 1,000 large pages in small font—under the category, “Different World.” Such is an article from The Century...
by Publius | Nov 27, 2019 | Economics and Enterprise, Grey Matter
By David Noonan | (Source) The recipe for succeeding in any given field is hardly a mystery: good ideas, hard work, discipline, imagination, perseverance and maybe a little luck. Oh, and let’s not forget failure, which Dashun Wang and his colleagues at Northwestern...
by Publius | 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 Publius | May 10, 2017 | Grey Matter
(Source) | This intense film reveals the personal side of a public persona When the world sees a teenager rooting for change, they are moved by the very effort. But sometimes they (the world) ends up ignoring what’s gone behind bringing about that change. We forget...
