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 | Dec 4, 2019 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By John Leo | (Source) The mainstream press has not shown much interest in the struggle of college journalists to report accurately on free-speech and free-press issues on campus. On November 13, The New York Times weighed in with a long news article on student...
by Publius | Nov 13, 2019 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Natural Science
By Roberto Rivera | (Source) Last week, more than 11 thousand scientists issued a report entitled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” The message of the report was that the planet is on the brink of a “catastrophic ‘hothouse Earth,’ well beyond the...
by Publius | 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 Publius | 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...