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Why We're All a Lot Richer Than We Realize
- Economics, Featured, International, Uncategorized
- July 15, 2025
Every day on Facebook, I watch as some debate is interrupted by a correction of a participant’s grammar. When these corrections occur on Intellectual Takeout, they are sometimes accompanied by a dig at the person’s intelligence, with the implication that the corrector is much more of an intellectual. For all of you Grammar Nazis out
READ MORET.S. Eliot famously lamented, “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” The staff and I at Intellectual Takeout find ourselves frequently asking the same thing. Modern Western man is suffering from an information overload. There are now over one million new books published each year in just the U.S., large newspapers publish anywhere
READ MOREYou’ve most likely heard the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” played during the holiday season. What you might not know is that it refers to a yearly tradition that begins on December 17 each year, namely, the “O Antiphons.” It is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ was the Messiah, and that his coming
READ MOREIt’s assumed by many that America’s public schools are, and have always been, a value-neutral and secular alternative to faith-based schools. But that’s not really accurate. As Boston University professor Charles Glenn has argued in The Myth of the Common School, the creation of America’s public school system was simply the triumph of one
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