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  • Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID

    Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID0

    This year has brought us a brutal lesson in the truth of the phrase “Ideas Have Consequences,” popularized by political philosopher Richard Weaver in 1948. Weaver argued that the rise of relativism was damaging Western civilization, eroding our abilities to use reason and logic for problem solving. Such loss of reason and logic have been

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  • Fake Meat Is Just Part of the Movement Toward Artificial Everything

    Fake Meat Is Just Part of the Movement Toward Artificial Everything0

    The next time you go to the restaurant and order a steak, don’t be surprised if the waiter who serves it is wearing a laboratory smock and a medical mask – and lecturing you about your environmental responsibilities. When I first heard about the development of artificial meat, I knew there was something sinister about

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  • Fake Hate is Now Happening on the Right, Too

    Fake Hate is Now Happening on the Right, Too0

    The rise of “fake hate”—false reports of crime reported by individuals claiming to be victims of crimes committed by a certain group—is a deeply troubling phenomenon.   There was a spike of these stories following the election of Donald Trump, most of which were stories spun by college students who claimed they were victims of

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  • Fake Government Statistics

    Fake Government Statistics1

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently admitted that 818,000 fewer jobs were added from March 2023 to March 2024 than previously reported. That’s no small number, and it’s an indication of how significant the issues with government statistics are. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only time that government agencies have misrepresented vital economic statistics. Though jobs

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  • Faith, Family, Government, & the Company Store

    Faith, Family, Government, & the Company Store0

    My father was not an easy man to categorize when it came to politics. He was, like almost everybody else where I grew up, a registered Democrat. Republicans in New England and the middle Atlantic states were not fond of Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Poland, and the immigrants were not fond of the Republicans,

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  • Faith is Inescapable

    Faith is Inescapable0

    • October 13, 2015

    We get a lot of harsh critiques of religion from commenters on our Intellectual Takeout Facebook page. Present in many of these critiques is the idea that faith is opposed to reason. In this piece, I don’t wish to argue about the merits of our commenters’ opposition to religion. Many (not all) identify some real

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