728 x 90

Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

  • Home
  •  
  • Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump

    A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump0

    Did former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Senator Ed Muskie from half a century ago? In his first off-year election in 1970, President Richard Nixon ran a tough attack campaign to hold the 52 House seats the GOP had added in ’66 and ’68, and to

    READ MORE
  • A Delicate Balance: What to Make of the Link Between Falling Bat Populations and Rising Infant Mortality

    A Delicate Balance: What to Make of the Link Between Falling Bat Populations and Rising Infant Mortality4

    A fascinating study recently published in Science found that human lives may depend on the fate of bats. Not directly, of course. Rather, it’s the bat’s unique role in the ecosystems they inhabit that’s important for us. As a result, the decline of bat populations endangers human populations in an unexpected manner. The link between

    READ MORE
  • A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking

    A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking1

    A teacher-friend of mine recently expressed sadness over the stagnation of her students. Before the pandemic she could see students steadily gaining ground. Now she was seeing zero progress on their tests—and maybe even some declines. Tests aren’t everything, she admitted, yet after struggling through online teaching and masks and other troubles, she was disheartened

    READ MORE
  • A Date which will Live in Infamy

    A Date which will Live in Infamy0

    74 years ago today, the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The devastation was immense, but the action did not knock the United States out of the war as the Japanese hoped. Here is President Roosevelt’s complete speech to Congress requesting a declaration of war. It includes

    READ MORE
  • A Cure for Our Narcissistic Culture

    A Cure for Our Narcissistic Culture13

    America is in the thrall of a new addiction. The old standbys, alcohol and drugs, continue to destroy individuals, families, and friendships. The COVID lockdowns made things even worse, with men and women turning to booze and pills for solace against loneliness and lost jobs. Meanwhile, the flood of fentanyl across our southern border is

    READ MORE
  • A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible

    A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible2

    While visiting friends this summer, I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. As the largest home in the United States, Biltmore is a time capsule of valuable treasures spanning everything from Napoleon’s chess set to tapestries from sixteenth-century Belgium. It was while viewing one of these tapestries

    READ MORE
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024