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  • File This Under ‘Things You Would Never See in America’

    File This Under ‘Things You Would Never See in America’0

    • February 11, 2016

    At Intellectual Takeout, we often wish that people would be more passionate about ideas. But this might be taking it a bit too far… In 2014, the Independent reported that a teacher in Russia killed his friend over a dispute about… wait for it… the merits of poetry versus prose. “A Russian teacher allegedly killed

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  • Figuring Out Your 1960s Stance in One Question

    Figuring Out Your 1960s Stance in One Question1

    The 1960s, according to Carl Oglesby, a former president of Students for a Democratic Society, “will never level out.” “It’s a corkscrew, it’s a tailspin, it’s a joyride on a roller coaster, it’s a never-ending mystery,” he continues. “Who won? Who lost? What were the terms of victory and defeat? We’ll always be discussing that.” I

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  • Fighting the Woke Asylum Through Natural Law

    Fighting the Woke Asylum Through Natural Law0

    “Academics repeatedly declare the natural law to be dead,” observed former Notre Dame law professor Anton-Hermann Chroust. “But every twenty-five years or so it comes in again by the back door when some crisis shows the failure of utilitarian positivism.” America seems to be at such a crisis point, with the dominance of “wokeism” and the

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  • Fighting the Industrialized School System One Grandparent at a Time

    Fighting the Industrialized School System One Grandparent at a Time0

    Last spring found my neighbors unexpectedly homeschooling their grandchildren. The little ones racing by my house on scooters at “recess time,” grandparents in tow, were soon joined by a couple older students. Upon inquiry, it was discovered that their homeschool had expanded to another family caught high and dry by the lockdowns. This grandparent-operated homeschool

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  • Fighting Suicide in the Midst of a Pandemic

    Fighting Suicide in the Midst of a Pandemic0

    If you’re going to kill yourself, you’re also going to kill the people who love you.                                                                               ~

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  • Fighting Schools to Save Education

    Fighting Schools to Save Education0

    This week an older reader, Ed, sent me an email lamenting the current state of education in our country. He gave several examples, including “I remember when I was about nine years old, my dad who didn’t finish the Sixth Grade had to help my brother with Eighth Grade spelling.” Ed’s email took me back

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