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  • What Thomas Jefferson Meant by ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’

    What Thomas Jefferson Meant by ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’4

    The idea of the “pursuit of happiness” is in our societal DNA. Yet, this “unalienable right,” immortalized in the Declaration of Independence, has often puzzled people. What exactly did Jefferson mean? Most people think of happiness as feeling good, but that is not what Jefferson meant. Pleasure and happiness are not the same. Our happiness

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  • What They’re Reading in Ivy League Schools

    What They’re Reading in Ivy League Schools0

    We’re big proponents of self-education at Intellectual Takeout. So when today’s Washington Post claimed there was a new way to get an expensive Ivy League education without paying tuition, I eagerly bit. According to The Post, the way to this inexpensive education is through the Open Syllabus Explorer, which is “an online database of books assigned

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  • What These Recent Supreme Court Cases Mean

    What These Recent Supreme Court Cases Mean0

    Whatever the outcome of this November’s election, rulings being handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court serve as regular reminders of the results in 2016. During the previous administration, the entrance of Neil Gorsuch (2017), Brett Kavanaugh (2018), and Amy Coney Barrett (2020) to the highest bench in the land shifted the court’s balance. That

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  • What These 3 Doctors Think Should Be Done For Children Who Think They Are Transgender

    What These 3 Doctors Think Should Be Done For Children Who Think They Are Transgender0

    • November 2, 2017

    Three doctors, specializing in pediatrics, biology and psychiatry, are criticizing what they say is the reliance on feelings over facts when it comes to studying and treating children who think they’re transgender. In a panel discussion at The Heritage Foundation, the doctors said the transgender ideology permeating society today is hurting children and undermining scientific

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  • What the World’s Religious Population Will Look Like in 2060

    What the World’s Religious Population Will Look Like in 20600

    What will the world’s religious population look like in the middle of the twentieth century? Well, pace Frederick Nietzsche, God will not be dead, at least according to the number of believers in the world. Instead, it will be those of no religious affiliation who will be rarer as a proportion of the population, according

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  • What the Vanity Fair Article on the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Proved

    What the Vanity Fair Article on the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Proved1

    Vanity Fair may not have proved where COVID-19 came from, but they did a smashing job of exposing the rotten core of DC power politics.

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