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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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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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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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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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“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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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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