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    Devin Foley is the co-founder of Intellectual Takeout and former CEO of Charlemagne Institute.

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  • The Big Problem with Incest isn’t Genetic

    The Big Problem with Incest isn’t Genetic0

    Generally speaking, when individuals consider whether or not incest is acceptable or not, the first thought goes to genetics. Quite quickly, images of malformed backwoods-types or sickly kings and queens of old come to mind. For that reason, people may say that incest itself is okay as long as there is consent and that protection

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  • Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’

    Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’0

    If anything positive has come about from the 2016 presidential campaign season, it would be that the press has revealed its true character. Complaints abound from Americans of all stripes that “the media” is more interested in driving its own narrative than simply informing the public. In his 1908 book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton wrote about

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  • The Weakness of ‘Consent’ as a Moral Framework

    The Weakness of ‘Consent’ as a Moral Framework0

    After rejecting the Christian moral framework that largely guided us for 1,500+ years, the post-modern West settled upon moral relativism in the mid- to late-20th century as the replacement. Now fifty years or more into the experiment, we’re seeing that it doesn’t work as well as we’d hoped. The logic of a relativistic society dictates

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  • The Real Debate is over Human Nature

    The Real Debate is over Human Nature0

    In Federalist #51, the ‘Father of the Constitution’, James Madison, argued: The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of

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