728 x 90

Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

  • Home
  •  
  • Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • Death by Selfie: Egotism as the Root of Our Troubles

    Death by Selfie: Egotism as the Root of Our Troubles0

    In an article at The Daily Wire, Joseph Curl reports that a 23-year-old Chinese crane operator, Xiao Qiumei, who had 100,000 followers on social media, fell 160 feet to her death while filming herself on a giant crane. She was the second woman to die in China in July by way of a fall in

    READ MORE
  • Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century

    Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century0

    It was in June 1996 that I picked up a book that, for all intents and purposes, changed my life: R.J. Rummel’s Death by Government (Transaction, 1994). After purchasing the book, I devoured it on a flight from Houston to Indianapolis. Every anti-Communist thought my mother had so rightly drilled into me as a child, every viewing of The Killing

    READ MORE
  • Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening

    Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening0

    America is slowly beginning to reopen, with different states running the course at varying speeds. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently repealed state-wide regulations instantaneously, most states do not have the benefit of such decisive action, and are instead suffering through phases arbitrarily decided by state and local governments or executive fiat. In most of America, liquor

    READ MORE
  • Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids

    Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids0

    Dear Senator Warren, Congratulations! You’ve been making great progress in your presidential race. As a working mom of two little girls, aged two and three, I’m happy to see a fellow mom in the spotlight, fighting to help middle-class families. But, I have to admit, I’m a little bit confused. Let me explain. I recently

    READ MORE
  • Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are

    Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are0

    In Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit,” the character Joseph Garcin concludes that torture and other forms of physical punishment pale in comparison to the torment of poor company. So he pronounces that “Hell is other people.” The same cynical view overcomes me when intelligent people theorize about the harm caused by offensive speech. Lynne Tirrell,

    READ MORE
  • Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’

    Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’0

    Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would

    READ MORE
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024