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  • Final Tax Bill: Middle Class Gets Biggest Cut

    Final Tax Bill: Middle Class Gets Biggest Cut0

    The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has released its distributional analysis of the final Republican tax bill. The bill provides even larger percentage cuts for middle earners than previous versions of the legislation. If the legislation is enacted, higher earners will pay an even larger share of the overall income tax burden than they do now. Our

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  • Film Review: ‘Sound of Freedom’

    Film Review: ‘Sound of Freedom’6

    There’s something rotten at the core of our civilization, a rottenness that has hidden like an undetected cancer under the surface of society for far too long. I speak of the systematic abuse of children on a massive scale through child sex trafficking. The film Sound of Freedom, directed by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Jim

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  • Film Review: ‘Am I Racist?’

    Film Review: ‘Am I Racist?’0

    Matt Walsh has firmly established himself as a professional troll. I don’t use the term in a derogatory way. In many cases, his stunts bring needed attention to cultural and political issues, and he has a talent for reminding us just how absurd (and dangerous) certain contemporary trends really are. Writing faux LGBT children’s books,

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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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