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  • A Voyage to Nowhere: The Decline of American Culture

    A Voyage to Nowhere: The Decline of American Culture0

    In Paul Clayton’s collection of short stories, “Seeing Sunny Again,” we meet Carl Melcher. It’s the early 1960s, and Carl, who will enter high school in a week or so, has spent the summer hanging out on a beach longing without success to find a girlfriend. On this particular evening, he decides to try his

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  • A Very British Goodbye

    A Very British Goodbye0

    Perhaps the penny has dropped. All 50 of them. In just a handful of hours, Great Britain leaves the European Union. Plagues of locusts, pestilence, and lepers wait patiently in the wings. From where I’m sitting, though, all looks rosy. No marauding gangs of mottled malcontents seething in the streets. A distinct lack of killer

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  • A University Student’s Schedule… from 500 Years Ago

    A University Student’s Schedule… from 500 Years Ago1

    As we at Intellectual Takeout have recently pointed out, today’s college students aren’t devoting very much time to studying. The typical modern student spends less than 3 hours per day on education-related activities, i.e., attending class and studying. Undoubtedly this phenomenon is in large part due to the swelled ranks of college students combined with

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  • A Turning Tide: Nearly 300 Corporations Lost Their Perfect Woke Ranking in 2023

    A Turning Tide: Nearly 300 Corporations Lost Their Perfect Woke Ranking in 20235

    The Corporate Equality Index (CEI) is America’s premiere benchmarking tool used to measure companies’ adherence to LBGT orthodoxy. An initiative of the misleadingly named Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the CEI has recently published its 2023 report—and the news is less-than-glittery for hundreds of corporations that have lost their perfect score since 2022. In 2022, the

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  • A Trump-esque President in a Catholic University?

    A Trump-esque President in a Catholic University?0

    Mount St. Mary’s University, near Baltimore, is the nation’s second-oldest Catholic university. Faced with financial trouble, the Board of Trustees saw fit a few years ago to hire a businessman, Simon Newman, to fix the problem. But Newman’s style, and now his very mission, have created a huge kerfuffle. He has made numerous administrative changes,

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  • A Trip Back to the Fifties

    A Trip Back to the Fifties0

    Please hop into my time machine, and I’ll give you a short tour of Boonville, North Carolina in the summer of 1959, before bringing you back to the present day. Strolling around this small hamlet of 600, note the town’s most historic building, the old brick bank founded long ago by Mr. Shore. Take in

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