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  • Book BURNERS and Book BANNERS are Cut from the Same Cloth

    Book BURNERS and Book BANNERS are Cut from the Same Cloth0

    Book-burning serves as a powerful symbol of the dangers of totalitarianism and ideological intolerance. It conjures up images of Nazis throwing books deemed “un-German” on bonfires. It inspired authors of dystopian novels, such as George Orwell and Ray Bradbury, to warn of the destruction of freedom which the burning of books symbolizes and represents.  Yet

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  • Book Bans? Free Speech? The Hypocrisy of PEN America

    Book Bans? Free Speech? The Hypocrisy of PEN America2

    Founded in 1922, PEN America has long been considered a bastion of free expression in the United States. The organization professes to hold tight to the virtue of writers freely expressing themselves, without the fear of censorship: PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United

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  • Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise

    Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise5

    Although he was in power for only a handful of years, Hitler and his Nazi government slaughtered millions. One of the more well-known victims of that slaughter was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed on April 8th, 1945, a few short weeks before Hitler’s own death. Unlike many of Hitler’s victims, Bonhoeffer was not a Jew,

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  • Bonhoeffer on the ‘Levelling Down’ of Society

    Bonhoeffer on the ‘Levelling Down’ of Society1

    Not long ago, University of Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen made a startling announcement: “My students are know-nothings.” As Intellectual Takeout previously noted, Deneen believes that this lack of knowledge is the result of “civilizational commitment to civilizational suicide.” Thus, even while society claims to advance deep thought and educational excellence, society instead produces mediocre

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  • Bonfires of Bigotry: The Sources of Our Present Anger

    Bonfires of Bigotry: The Sources of Our Present Anger0

    A few questions for my readers: When you are shopping at WalMart or your local mall, do you constantly assess people by the color of their skin? When the pigmentation of the clerk behind the register at the grocery store differs from your own, does bile rise in your throat? When you meet someone wearing

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  • Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise

    Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise0

    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.”            Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory

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