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  • Elites Make Blue-Collar Workers Into Human COVID Shields

    Elites Make Blue-Collar Workers Into Human COVID Shields0

    COVID-19 is a disease, and we usually treat diseases as health problems. But when a disease becomes a pandemic, it also becomes an economic problem – not just because of the economic ramifications of trying to protect people from it, but because dealing with diseases on a mass scale requires economic thinking, mostly in the

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  • Elites and Big Media Still Can’t Understand Why Trump Won

    Elites and Big Media Still Can’t Understand Why Trump Won0

    In the days following the election, the webpages of the major media showed why they were so far off the mark in assuming, and largely promoting, a Clinton victory. The early morning shock and confusion among the millionaire-media class is striking.  But almost all of the posts and articles illustrate and perpetuate many of the

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  • Eliminating Food Deserts Doesn’t Help Poor Americans

    Eliminating Food Deserts Doesn’t Help Poor Americans0

    In the U.S., rich people tend to eat a lot healthier than poor people. Because poor diets cause obesity, Type II diabetes and other diseases, this nutritional inequality contributes to unequal health outcomes. The richest Americans can expect to live 10-15 years longer than the poorest. Many think that a key cause of nutritional inequality

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  • Eliminating Down Syndrome Children Is Not Something to Be Proud Of

    Eliminating Down Syndrome Children Is Not Something to Be Proud Of0

    This week, the CBS News program “On Assignment” included a long feature on what it described as the near eradication of Down syndrome in Iceland. As the story unfolded, viewers learned of the impact of genetic screening and abortion on a countrywide scale. On that tiny island, known to people mostly for its geothermal pools

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  • Elementary Students Being Indoctrinated in Minnesota’s Top School District

    Elementary Students Being Indoctrinated in Minnesota’s Top School District0

    As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, a large percentage of students in public schools today are being trained to view the world primarily through the lenses of race, class, and gender. Another good example of this phenomenon came to my attention last week in Intellectual Takeout’s backyard. Highlands Elementary is a K-5 school in Edina Public

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  • Elementary School to Remove ‘Conformity’ Posters Amid Uproar

    Elementary School to Remove ‘Conformity’ Posters Amid Uproar0

    In case there was any ambiguity over the idea that mass schooling values and rewards conformity and compliance, an elementary school in Florida has made it very clear. At Deer Park Elementary School in Pasco County, signs appeared this week showing a hierarchy of behaviors from good to bad. “Democracy” was at the top, “Anarchy”

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