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  • Internet Hate-Speech Rules Harm Mainstream, Normal Speakers

    Internet Hate-Speech Rules Harm Mainstream, Normal Speakers0

    • May 15, 2019

    Democrats in Congress have been pressuring social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google to crack down on hate speech. This may sound harmless, but it isn’t. “Hate speech” is a misleading phrase, and it’s no longer just about hate. Even things like expert medical opinions about transsexualism and gender identity have been labeled as

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  • Internal Chaos Caused Philly’s ‘Peaceful Protests’

    Internal Chaos Caused Philly’s ‘Peaceful Protests’0

    Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, welcome to the ranks of riot-ravaged cities! Unrest is exploding once again in a major American city, this time following the death of Walter Wallace, a mentally unstable black man killed after advancing on police with a knife. Wallace’s family has pleaded with people to not riot in his name,

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  • Intelligence is Worth Little Without Wisdom

    Intelligence is Worth Little Without Wisdom0

    As I went for my usual afternoon walk on my old campus at Notre Dame – recalling the class I had in that building, the conversation I had over there, the quiet moments reading on that bench there – I became aware of the creeping feeling of regret, as happens every so often.  You see,

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  • Intellectuals Didn’t Oppose Nazism Because It Was ‘Tedious’

    Intellectuals Didn’t Oppose Nazism Because It Was ‘Tedious’0

    There are times when men shirk from opposing grievous error because it’s dangerous, or inconvenient, or they are temporarily blinded by it.   And sometimes, it’s because it’s so damn boring.    This lesson was forcefully brought home to me in an article Carl Trueman wrote for First Things last year entitled “Persistent Defiance.” In

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  • Intellectual Work Begins in Ecstasy

    Intellectual Work Begins in Ecstasy0

    “Intellectual work begins in ecstasy.” That was not said by a drug-addled artist, as one might expect. It was soberly asserted by one of the last people you’d think of: a Dominican “friar” and priest who died decades ago, having lived his life mostly in study, prayer, poverty, chastity, and obedience. His name was Antonin

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  • Intellectual Takeout’s Five Favorite Christmas Movies

    Intellectual Takeout’s Five Favorite Christmas Movies0

    The staff at Intellectual Takeout and the Charlemagne Institute participated in a highly non-scientific poll to crown our favorite Christmas movies as we prepare for Christ’s coming this Advent. More than a dozen movies were listed in our staff’s top three picks for movies to get cozy with during Christmastime, but five stood aloft from

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