by Publius | Nov 25, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By James D. Agresti | (Source) In an effort to combat racial discrimination the San Diego Unified School District last week announced plans to abolish the traditional grading system, Fox News reports. USA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress...
by Publius | Nov 18, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Richard M. Reinsch II | (Source) Through the sweeping and indiscriminate indictment of oppression that it makes against the American republic, wokeism poses the first serious challenge to our constitutional democracy since Communism. Wokeism aims to remake...
by Publius | Nov 11, 2020 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk | (Source) In the spring of 2003, I was in my third year of graduate school and expecting my third baby. One day, I ran into a fellow student whom I had not seen in some months. Seeing my baby bump, she exclaimed: “Your third? Do you really...
by Publius | Oct 14, 2020 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Joshua Mitchell | (Source) It’s not good for man to be alone, yet modern life conspires to produce just such a condition. “Social distancing” is more than just a response to a pandemic; it is the centrifugal force in modern life. Americans play their part in this...
by Publius | Sep 23, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Anthony Esolen | (Source) My experience,” wrote Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery, “is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what color of skin merit is found. I have found, too,...
