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‘Imagine’ a New National Anthem0
- Culture
- December 10, 2020
Attempts to erase or denigrate our country’s past are now routine. Men and women once regarded as heroes and great Americans are regularly attacked as racists, sexists, and capitalists, their statues of remembrance removed in the popular sport of statue-toppling. Sadly, such contempt for our past and for America’s ideals was
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‘If You Don’t Have to Throw the Kids in the Bathtub, They Haven’t Played Hard Enough.’31
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- September 3, 2025
A guard in a Wabash, Ind., prison gave me that title. The prison was featured in a 2017 video, “Free the Kids—Dirt Is Good,” where inmates are permitted two precious hours a day outdoors. The short film contrasts that privilege with data showing that children spend less than an hour a day outside their house. At
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‘If the Devil Can’t Make You Bad, He’ll Make You Busy’2
The noon sun beamed high in the sky as I began warming up my daughter’s team in the outfield grass. It was the start of another 12U softball Saturday in the Chicago suburbs. As I lined up the girls, I watched our head coach pull up in his minivan about 15 minutes late for warm-ups.
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‘Idiocracy’ Writer: The Fictional Movie Has Become a ‘Documentary’0
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- February 25, 2016
Many times on Intellectual Takeout, we see our readers label our current age an “Idiocracy,” referring to the 2006 dystopian movie in which all future American citizens, including the president, are idiots. Well, it now appears that the co-writer of “Idiocracy” agrees with them. In a now-viral post on Twitter yesterday, Etan Cohen tweeted that
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‘I’ll Never Be the Same’: My Ukrainian Wife’s First Trip to the United States0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
KYIV, Ukraine—How do you measure America’s greatness? By the size of its economy, or the strength of its military? By the height of its city skylines, or the audacity of the moon landings? Perhaps, by the heroism of the Marines who landed on Iwo Jima, or of the Army soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach?
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‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did0
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- June 17, 2019
“There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist in the Babylonian Exile. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been out-Jeremiah-ing Jeremiah as she criss-crosses Europe lecturing about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Here’s how she excoriated “the people and prophets and priests” at the World Economic Forum in
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