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  • E.B. White’s Touching Letter to Man Who Lost Hope in Humanity

    E.B. White’s Touching Letter to Man Who Lost Hope in Humanity0

    I’m a longtime fan of E.B. White. Intellectual Takeout readers likely know he wrote a lot more than just Charlotte’s Web. His short story The Door is one of my favorite short stories. (We’ll deconstruct that one another other day; as you can see, it’s quite mad.) I bring up White because an old friend

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  • E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions

    E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions0

    E.B. White, the author of Charlotte’s Web and co-author of The Elements of Style, once wrote a story that aptly demonstrates the folly of central planning. White, a Maine farmer who wrote for The New Yorker and Harper’s, saw the story turned into an animated short, which he narrated 36 years after its publication. In “The Family that Dwelt Apart” – published in The New

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  • E Pluribus Unum – ‘Out of Many, One’

    E Pluribus Unum – ‘Out of Many, One’0

    While not the official motto of the United States, E Pluribus Unum, is a common Latin phrase used in the United States since 1776 and still found on the Great Seal of the United States. Its meaning, of course, is “Out of many, one”. It originally referred to the act of many states (or colonies

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  • Dystopia Has Arrived in America. But Its Horrors Are Covered in a Cosmetic Veneer

    Dystopia Has Arrived in America. But Its Horrors Are Covered in a Cosmetic Veneer1

    Having just re-read C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, it strikes me once again that it belongs on the shelf with the other classic dystopian novels, Brave New World and 1984. Lewis captures all the classic dystopian elements of the totalitarian threat, and he rightly identifies the atheistic scientism and utilitarianism lying beneath all utopian ideologies.

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  • Dying Words From 7 Founding Fathers

    Dying Words From 7 Founding Fathers0

    1) “‘Tis Well.” – George Washington, Dec. 14, 1799? Washington caught a chill while out riding during a December snow storm. He arrived late to dinner and, not wishing to keep his guests waiting, opted to not change out of his wet clothes. He developed pneumonia and died two days later. He was 67. 2)

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  • Dying Alone – Building Community in an Age of Isolation

    Dying Alone – Building Community in an Age of Isolation10

    On Feb. 26, 2025, first responders found Betsy Arakawa, 65, dead on the bathroom floor of the palatial Sante Fe, N.M., home she shared with husband and Hollywood star Gene Hackman, 95. Hackman’s body was found in the mudroom. Investigation revealed that Arakawa had died around Feb. 11 of a rare rodent-borne disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, while

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