by Libertad | Mar 29, 2016 | Grey Matter, Posts
By Matt Pearce and Jenny Jarvie | Under pressure from the entertainment industry and major corporations, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday vetoed a “religious liberty” bill that would have made it legal to deny services to gay people. His decision stands...
by Libertad | 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 Libertad | Nov 20, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Ross Douthat | BETWEEN the 19th century and the 1950s, the American university was gradually transformed from an institution intended to transmit knowledge into an institution designed to serve technocracy. The religious premises fell away, the classical...
by Libertad | Nov 13, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Nicholas Kristof | On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force. One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways...
by Libertad | Nov 4, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Geena Goozdich | Many people in America, especially those among our generation, have become apathetic about the idea of voting. Whenever the subject is breached, you constantly hear commentary like, “What is just one more vote?” or “I don’t care enough about it.”....