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  • Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies

    Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies0

    Ah, Easter egg hunts. They’re a fun, wholesome, all-American tradition. Or are they? As many parents can attest, Easter egg hunts also have a dark side. Last Saturday, my husband and I took our four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son to an Easter egg hunt sponsored by a local school. To our amazement, the kids had

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  • Early Starts in School Lead to Higher Rates of ADHD Diagnoses

    Early Starts in School Lead to Higher Rates of ADHD Diagnoses0

    Parents want the best for their children, particularly when it comes to education. While many parents may feel the cultural push toward earlier schooling, some are questioning these evolving norms and delaying school enrollment or forgoing conventional schooling altogether. Intellectual Disabilities and Depression Previous findings by Harvard researchers showed increased ADHD diagnosis rates for children

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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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