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- Culture, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2025
Gallup released a poll this week showing that Americans are, on average, getting heavier. Oddly, at the same time, the percentage of people who say they believe they are overweight is declining, as are the percentage of people who say they are trying to lose weight or want to lose weight. The results are probably
READ MOREYesterday afternoon an email from an Intellectual Takeout reader arrived in my inbox, asking what I thought of the jacket Melania Trump wore to visit migrant children near the Mexican border. Having read a previous article I wrote on Melania’s fashion choices, this reader asked if I could weigh in with some thoughts. Pulling up
READ MOREWhy are young adults turning out on the streets more, raging against unwelcome guest speakers on their campuses more? Why are they parading Nazi emblems or smashing statues of yesterday’s heroes? What are they not doing that gives them so much time and energy to burn? Sex. In America, anyway, they are not doing sex. According to
READ MOREThere are public protests against lockdowns in Denmark, Italy, France, and all over Europe. They are growing in numbers and fury. Why not the U.S.? Scott Atlas suggested in passing that Michigan residents “rise up” against new lockdowns in Michigan, and major media collectively fainted in shock. Preposterously, he was forced to clarify that he
READ MORERecent news has proudly informed us that U.S. graduation rates are rising. Unfortunately, rising grad rates don’t tell the whole story. If one truly wants to know how American students are doing in school, a look at the Nation’s Report Card might offer a better picture. Those numbers tell us that not even half of
READ MOREOver the last couple of months we’ve brought you grim news from the USA. First there was the story of the rapid rise in the mortality rate of middle aged white Americans mainly driven by suicide, drugs and alcohol. Secondly, there was last month’s report on the rise by 24% in the suicide rate of all Americans from 1999
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