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  • An English Teacher Explains 5 Reasons Today’s Students Can’t Write

    An English Teacher Explains 5 Reasons Today’s Students Can’t Write0

    • November 9, 2017

    One of the interesting things about working at Intellectual Takeout is hearing the personal experiences of readers regarding issues we raise and discuss in our articles. A more recent example of this is the individual who wrote that he had gone back to college as a middle-age student seeking greater career advancement. While there, a

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  • An Election Without a Mandate

    An Election Without a Mandate0

    Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman somehow contorted the mixed, and yet unresolved, 2020 election results to simultaneously claim that mandates do not really exist, but that Joe Biden nonetheless has one. It is important to refute this spurious claim because Biden and Kamala Harris will use any excuse they can to push a laundry list of progressive legislation

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  • An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities

    An Education We’re Missing Living in Cities0

    Have you ever seen a “hen-pecked” chicken? It’s not pretty. Here’s a picture: (Source: cluck-cluck-here.blogspot.com) It turns out that chickens are actually quite cruel to each other. There is a “pecking order” and you don’t want to be the chicken on the bottom of that order. The farmer my family visited over the weekend pointed

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  • An Economy That Only Works for the Rich and Powerful Is Not a Capitalist Economy

    An Economy That Only Works for the Rich and Powerful Is Not a Capitalist Economy0

    Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. George Orwell wrote those words nearly 80 years ago. Today, Americans are witnessing exactly what Orwell described. Many have the

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  • An Author Explains 5 Steps to Becoming a Smart Reader

    An Author Explains 5 Steps to Becoming a Smart Reader0

    Autumn vibes reign supreme at this time of year. Pumpkin spice lattes, “hygge” trends, sweaters, back-to-school shopping, and crisp clear days do their best to enchant even the most resistant of us. And of course, there’s always the option of curling up with a good book. It is this latter pastime that Dorothy Sayers, an

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  • An Auschwitz Survivior’s Search for Meaning

    An Auschwitz Survivior’s Search for Meaning0

    This year marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Man’s Search for Meaning, one of the most powerful statements of human dignity written in the last century. The author was Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and a Jew, who spent about three years in concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His father, mother, brother and his pregnant

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