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  • How Schopenhauer Can Help You Understand (and Overcome) Your Midlife Crisis

    How Schopenhauer Can Help You Understand (and Overcome) Your Midlife Crisis0

    Despite reflecting on the good life for more than 2,500 years, philosophers have not had much to say about middle age. For me, approaching 40 was a time of stereotypical crisis. Having jumped the hurdles of the academic career track, I knew I was lucky to be a tenured professor of philosophy. Yet stepping back

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  • How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents

    How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents0

    Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: “In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so

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  • How San Fransisco’s Housing Policy Makes it Harder for the Homeless

    How San Fransisco’s Housing Policy Makes it Harder for the Homeless0

    I recently highlighted California’s counterproductive restrictions on private efforts to feed the homeless. But the state’s policies aren’t just inhibiting the bottom-up activities of non-profits and charities. They’re also restricting potential solutions via entrepreneurial investment. Alas, many municipalities have severely restricted new residential development, causing the housing supply to diminish and the cost of living to soar. In a

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  • How Rome Described Their Barbarians

    How Rome Described Their Barbarians1

    The term “barbarian” gets thrown around a lot, including by our Intellectual Takeout authors in their blogs. In general, “barbarian” is the generic term used by Westerners for someone who do not conform to the dominant culture’s standards of civilization and, in some cases, seeks to actively undermine them. Many scholars have argued that we

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  • How Romanticism Encouraged the Decline of Marriage

    How Romanticism Encouraged the Decline of Marriage0

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  • How Republicans Managed to Turn Alabama Blue

    How Republicans Managed to Turn Alabama Blue0

    If there was one Republican in Alabama the Democratic Doug Jones could beat, Roy Moore was that Republican. And in a Tuesday night nail-biter, Jones did just that, edging Moore by a mere 1.5 percentage points in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1992. So while the Democrats are

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