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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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  • Graduates, Be Skeptical of Those in Power

    Graduates, Be Skeptical of Those in Power0

    It is graduation season, and with it comes the inevitable commencement speeches that encourage the new graduates to go forth bravely into the world, transform it, and leave their marks. I doubt any college administrators will ever invite someone like me to give such a speech. In some ways, it is for the best. I

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  • Grade Acceleration Benefits Learners and Schools. Why Is It so Rare?

    Grade Acceleration Benefits Learners and Schools. Why Is It so Rare?0

    New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio is making headlines suited for satire. A commission he assembled recently released a report recommending the elimination of gifted programs in order to reduce inequality – a remedy of Harrison Burgeron proportions. Unfortunately, as a general nationwide trend, public schools have already neglected the top students in favor of an

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  • GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading

    GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading0

    A new article in GQ lists the“21 most overrated books ever.” Of the 21 books GQ lists that aren’t worth reading, one of them is the Bible. It’s enough to make you wonder if GQ is a magazine worth reading.   The Bible gets the boot, along with Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and

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  • Goya’s Painting of Saturn Devouring His Son: A Study in Damnation

    Goya’s Painting of Saturn Devouring His Son: A Study in Damnation0

    It’s one of the most horrific images in the history of Western art.   As the myth goes, Saturn (or Cronus, as the Greeks called him) was king of the universe, but was warned by a prophecy that one day he would be overthrown by one of his sons, just as he overthrew his father Uranus. To preserve

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  • Governments Switched From ‘Flatten the Curve’ to ‘Lockdown Until Vaccine’

    Governments Switched From ‘Flatten the Curve’ to ‘Lockdown Until Vaccine’0

    In the early days of the COVID-19 panic – back in mid-March – articles began to appear pushing the idea of “flattening the curve” (The Washington Post ran an article called “Flatten the Curve” on March 14). This idea was premised on spreading out the total number of COVID-19 infections over time, so as to

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