by jstewardfree | 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...
by jstewardfree | May 6, 2019 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By James D. Agresti (Source) James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, repeatedly emphasized that the United States is a “republic” and not a “democracy.” In stark contrast, Jonathan Bernstein, a Bloomberg columnist...
by jstewardfree | Jun 4, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By Steve Balch | Among academics, the term “Western civilization,” once totemic, has grown impolite. To use it without sneer or smirk can rouse suspicions of Eurocentrism or even bigotry. Many academics who think themselves “Progressive” today equate Western...
by jstewardfree | Jan 19, 2016 | Grey Matter
By Syreeta McFadden | In 1968, when my father was a teenage boy in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. went there to support the city’s striking sanitation workers. He marched with King and thousands of other protesters, and in the violence that erupted afterward, the...
by jstewardfree | Jan 4, 2016 | Grey Matter
By Susan Orenstein | As the new year approaches each year, many of us start thinking of resolutions. It can actually feel uplifting to begin a new plan such as joining a gym to get fit, writing one page a day for the next Great American novel, or more prosaically,...
