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  • Augustine: There’s No Such Thing as a Harmless Lie

    Augustine: There’s No Such Thing as a Harmless Lie0

    Based on a variety of discussions on Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook page about extramarital affairs, the consensus seemed to be that affairs are still considered disgraceful moral behavior (vs. other behaviors that have grown more acceptable over time) because they involve a breach of trust. Many argue that we live in a decadent society, but apparently, that society

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  • Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation

    Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation0

    On May 4th, 1945, future British actress and Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn celebrated her 16th birthday. Although a girl’s 16th birthday is often a special occasion, turning 16 was even more special for Hepburn, for the day also marked the liberation of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands—the Nazi-occupied Netherlands under which Hepburn had lived since 1939.  The

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  • Attorney General Sees No Case for Obstruction as Mueller Finds No Collusion With Russia

    Attorney General Sees No Case for Obstruction as Mueller Finds No Collusion With Russia0

    It’s no longer only President Donald Trump and his allies saying “no collusion.” Special counsel Robert Mueller has reached the same conclusion that the Trump campaign did not conspire with Moscow to gain advantage in the 2016 election. Mueller also did not uncover actionable evidence in his 22-month probe that Trump sought to obstruct justice

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  • Attorney General Says Mueller Found No Collusion, but 10 Instances of Possible Obstruction

    Attorney General Says Mueller Found No Collusion, but 10 Instances of Possible Obstruction0

    Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report highlights 10 episodes that could be construed as obstruction of justice, although his investigation found no underlying conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Attorney General William Barr held a press conference Thursday morning to lay out the conclusions

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  • Atticus Finch’s Critique of the Public Education System

    Atticus Finch’s Critique of the Public Education System0

    In American schools, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is usually read in 8th or 9th grade. As such, because students at that grade level have only had so much life experience, some of its more penetrating social critiques are often missed. The other day I came across one of these critiques. The significance of

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  • Attentiveness as Service: The Virtue of Noticing

    Attentiveness as Service: The Virtue of Noticing2

    Focusing on the present is increasingly quite the challenge. Daily news bombards us with fears about the future, and some of us might find ourselves stuck thinking about a past stage of life or daydreaming about a hypothetical future. While contemplating the past and future are not necessarily wrong, it’s easy to substitute them for

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