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  • Beware Those Who Try to Create Utopias

    Beware Those Who Try to Create Utopias0

    There is a persistent temptation among human beings to seek after utopias. In our present world, we can see it in the world government ambitions of some political leaders, or the technocratic ambitions of reformers of the education system, or even certain parents who isolate their children from society in the hopes of preserving their

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  • Beware the Sombreros of March

    Beware the Sombreros of March0

    When does a hat become a battleground? When you’re trying to have good, clean fun on a politically-correct campus, that’s when. Last week, reports Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post, two members of Bowdoin College’s student government faced “impeachment proceedings” to be conducted over the weekend: “What heinous transgression did they commit? Theft, plagiarism, sexual

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  • Beware the Architects of Illusion

    Beware the Architects of Illusion1

    “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” So goes the old saying. In Intellectual Takeout contributor Walker Larson’s fantasy novel Hologram, however, Aaron Castillian becomes a king of sorts precisely because he is blind, at least in a particular way. After his people’s enemy, the Voturans, devastate Aaron’s hometown and kill

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  • Beware the ‘Paper Shortage’ Election Ruse

    Beware the ‘Paper Shortage’ Election Ruse0

    In the fall of 2020, I warned repeatedly on social media, TV, and in my syndicated column about the Zuckerberg Heist—Silicon Valley’s hijacking of our election system through a private nonprofit called the Center for Tech and Civic Life. CTCL was funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to the tune

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  • Beware Teachers Like These Ones in Ancient Greece

    Beware Teachers Like These Ones in Ancient Greece0

    • August 14, 2015

    Their name? “Sophists.” In Norms and Nobility David Hicks writes: “Socrates was a nuisance to many of the educators of his day, the utilitarian Sophists who were experts at teaching their students how to function within the madding city of Athens. A Sophist tended to accept the ‘givens’: an advocacy system that had lost the

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  • Beware of the ‘Fact Checkers’

    Beware of the ‘Fact Checkers’0

    We live in an age in which information is far more accessible than ever before. However, so is misinformation. How can we sort out one from the other? Well, some people who call themselves “fact checkers” claim to have the answer. They say, “Trust us.” But all-too-often, they fail to get even basic facts correct.

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