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  • Grammar Nazis: A True Intellectual is More Gracious

    Grammar Nazis: A True Intellectual is More Gracious0

    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

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  • We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information

    We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information0

    T.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

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  • There’s a Secret Code in One of Your Favorite Christmas Carols

    There’s a Secret Code in One of Your Favorite Christmas Carols0

    • December 14, 2016

    You’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

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  • Professor: America’s Public Schools Have Always Been ‘Religious’

    Professor: America’s Public Schools Have Always Been ‘Religious’1

    It’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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