728 x 90

Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

  • Home
  •  
  • Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • Get Rid of College Majors? Not So Fast.

    Get Rid of College Majors? Not So Fast.0

    Should college majors be a thing of the past? That idea received a fresh airing when author Jeffrey Selingo suggested that it’s “time to end college majors as we know them.” As a researcher who studies higher education, I concede that something about the way colleges and universities educate students in the United States needs

    READ MORE
  • Germany’s Student Right in the 1920s Was Just Like Today’s Student Left

    Germany’s Student Right in the 1920s Was Just Like Today’s Student Left0

    Germany’s path toward Nazism during the 1920s is a story well known. The most familiar facets in this story are the indoctrination of children through the Volk Movement and the creeping anti-semitism of the bourgeois and the German bureaucracy. What has received less attention is the radicalization of universities and students during the Weimar era

    READ MORE
  • Germany Stays ‘Woke’ After a Musical Chairs Election

    Germany Stays ‘Woke’ After a Musical Chairs Election0

    Federal elections rearranged Germany’s 709-seat Bundestag last week in what has been heralded by the mainstream press as the end of an era. In reality, the new governing coalition led by the country’s social democratic and green parities will change little in the country’s foreign and security policy. The new team will remain staunchly opposed to

    READ MORE
  • Georgia and Arkansas Revive an Old-School Teaching Method

    Georgia and Arkansas Revive an Old-School Teaching Method0

    In his rousing keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala last month, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered an unexpected  piece of advice: “Don’t throw away your hard-copy books.” Unlike digitized books, films, and albums that can be canceled, rewritten, or vanished altogether, physical copies are “the enduring repository that cannot be disappeared.” With their resurrection of

    READ MORE
  • George Will Calls Pope Francis a “False Prophet”

    George Will Calls Pope Francis a “False Prophet”0

    • September 24, 2015

    Pope Francis has received a lot of heat from conservatives for his position on the environment. The latest salvo is from George Will, who brutally called Francis a “false prophet” in the title of his syndicated column last Sunday. Essentially, Will accuses Francis of being heavy on idealism when it comes to his environmental ethic

    READ MORE
  • George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: What a Different Era

    George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: What a Different Era0

    (This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on November 22, 2017.) Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of

    READ MORE
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024