by jstewardfree | Jan 8, 2020 | Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Amanda Patchin | (Source) We wade through a torrent of words and images every day, and yet we mostly lack a clear understanding of what language is and can be for the human. The Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper’s slender little pamphlet Abuse of Language, Abuse...
by jstewardfree | Mar 1, 2016 | Grey Matter
By Ceilia Kang |The fight on encryption between Apple and the F.B.I. moved to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, with each side showing no sign of compromise. Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, said in written testimony...
by jstewardfree | May 14, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Michael Ward | The potential tyranny of big government is not the only constitutional danger facing Western democracies. In Norman Maclean’s fly fishing novella, A River Runs Through It, Maclean suggests (echoing some Native American traditions) that fishing...
by jstewardfree | May 16, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | The Legacy of George Washington | It takes a truly great man to resist seizing power when it is clearly within his grasp. If you pay much attention to what goes on in Washington (DC), you’ll observe that no one voluntarily gives up power. They...
