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  • Coming to Grips With the Facts About Masks

    Coming to Grips With the Facts About Masks2

    Allegations that “masks work” and “don’t cause harm” have been enforced by governments and corporations around the world for more than 18 months through arrests, firings, censorship, fines, and denial of access to schools, supermarkets, hospitals, streets, and other public spaces. This has made it virtually impossible for many people to live without complying with

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  • Coming to a Nation Near You, Starbucks Racial Bias Training

    Coming to a Nation Near You, Starbucks Racial Bias Training0

    Here in America, Starbucks’ shut down all of its stores for nearly a half day on May 29 to conduct racial bias training in response to a much-publicized incident in one of its stores. The program encouraged employees to speak their truth, honor other people’s truth and be “color brave”. Reading through the 68-page team

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  • Coming Full Circle: A Way Out of the Riots

    Coming Full Circle: A Way Out of the Riots0

    Another night, another round of riots. They’ve now come full circle, as rioters hit up Minneapolis for the second time since George Floyd’s death. The rationale of the rioters? Rumors that police shot a black man. The truth that soon emerged, however, was that the man killed himself as police closed in due to his

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  • Coming Clean: My 5 Suggestions for Improving the Education System

    Coming Clean: My 5 Suggestions for Improving the Education System0

    At Intellectual Takeout, we often criticize today’s American education system. In reaction, some in our audience make the blanket accusation that we are “against public education.” Others accuse us of merely “cursing the darkness” rather than “lighting a candle,” and wonder what we would suggest to improve things.    Are we against public education? If

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  • Coming Apart: The Real Civil War is in the Democratic Party

    Coming Apart: The Real Civil War is in the Democratic Party0

    The Trump ascendency has thrown a monkey wrench into the political dynamics of both parties. But while it creates difficulties for establishment Republicans in their own party, it creates even bigger ones for Democrats. Democrats had hoped that the takeover of Trump would create a civil war in the Republican Party between the free-market, white-collar,

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  • Comedian Provides Good Reminder That We Are More Than Our Jobs

    Comedian Provides Good Reminder That We Are More Than Our Jobs0

    In today’s society, many people tie their identities primarily to their jobs. They are what they do. After all, that’s what our schools have taught us to be. The stated goal of America’s education system is to make students “college- and career-ready.” It’s quite the reversal from Western education’s classical roots. As historian Henri Marrou

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