by Publius | Dec 18, 2019 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet | (Source) Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is known for trolling the art world. One his projects featured an 18-karat-gold toilet. The toilet, valued at $6 million, was stolen in September. His newest project sold for $120,000 but didn’t fare...
by Publius | 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 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 | Sep 25, 2019 | Contemporary Culture, Critical Thinking, Grey Matter
By Alan McLaughlin | (Source) To capitulate on pronouns is not an act of charity. It is rather the total surrender of the world, in a word. In today’s public communication climate, something as quotidian and unimpeachable as calling a girl “she” constitutes an...
by Publius | Sep 18, 2019 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Kristen Waggoner | (Source) It’s amazing to see who comes to the defense of freedom when you least expect it. In July, 12 leading philosophy scholars from around the world signed on to a statement supporting freedom of thought and speech in academia, specifically...
