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Trump's Easter Message Shows That God Works in Mysterious Ways
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- April 21, 2025
In a piece earlier this year, I presented philosopher Edward Feser’s argument that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, in spite of their different understandings about that God. Feser is a Catholic, and as I pointed out, his view aligns with recent Catholic documents on the topic. By no means, however, is this position
READ MORETake any stack of student essays these day, and you’ll most likely get a “basket of deplorables.” As we at Intellectual Takeout have pointed out on several occasions, only about 25% of America’s high school seniors are proficient in writing. We don’t really place most of the blame for this on the students. Chances
READ MOREI’m going to say something that’s heresy to many people today: I’m not a big fan of novels. Mind you, I don’t celebrate this fact. In his Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis noted that he didn’t care for the company of small children, but he considered this a fault in himself. I have an analogous
READ MOREIt’s commonly believed by Americans that allowing students to skip grades is unhealthy for their social and emotional development. However, an article in this month’s Scientific American suggests the opposite. The article describes the work of the “Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth” (SMPY), which over the past 45 years has identified 5,000 gifted individuals and
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