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  • When Government Fails, Communities Take Care of Themselves

    When Government Fails, Communities Take Care of Themselves0

    People often assume that government welfare programs provide the resources and safety net that local communities cannot. But in the early- and mid-20th century, systemic racism often meant that African American communities were excluded from government welfare programs. In the face of this injustice, we see numerous examples of communities stepping up to take care

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  • When French Atheists Committed Genocide

    When French Atheists Committed Genocide0

    New research shows that the French Revolution massacred vast numbers of women, children, and noncombatants in the Vendée region of France in 1794-95, after repressing a short-lived rebellion against the Revolutionary regime. Jaspreet Sing Boparai describes the incredible bloodshed in an article in Quillette titled “The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed from History.” This

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  • When Freedom and the Common Good Collide

    When Freedom and the Common Good Collide0

    One of the things that I really enjoy about writing for Intellectual Takeout is the quality and challenging nature of those who visit this site. This was evident in the comment to my last article about the danger of using half-digested Shakespeare to win an argument or make a point. The person whom I took

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  • When Free Speech Clashes With Trans Power

    When Free Speech Clashes With Trans Power0

    While Vancouver, British Columbia, has been on the front lines of the trans and free speech debates, the recent Pride Parade was a real flashpoint, giving us a clear insight into what we might expect on the U.S. cultural front in the not-so-distant future. In recent years, Pride has morphed from an LGBTQ-only celebration to

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  • When Free Pre-K Is Worse Than No Pre-K

    When Free Pre-K Is Worse Than No Pre-K0

    Dale Farran spent a decade studying over 1,000 kids who went to a state-run pre-kindergarten—and a control group of kids that wanted to, but didn’t get in. She is shocked and dismayed by what she discovered: By 6th grade the pre-K kids were doing worse all around: worse reading, math and science scores; more learning

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  • When Finance and Philosophy Clash

    When Finance and Philosophy Clash0

    Few people in our materialistic and avaricious age would consider making money a moral issue. Isn’t it merely one of the bare necessities of life? We speak of a “healthy profit” but nobody speaks about an unhealthy profit. To do so would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Not if you listen to some of the great

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