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  • What to Do On Thanksgiving

    What to Do On Thanksgiving0

    For a variety of reasons, modern America is both incredibly blessed and yet utterly frantic. We’ve lost something along the way to our material prosperity. I do believe what we face now is spiritual poverty. In contrast to Christmas, Thanksgiving is a time largely free of consumerism. While some of the Big Box retailers attempt

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  • What to Do (and What Not to Do) About the Pro-Palestine College Protests

    What to Do (and What Not to Do) About the Pro-Palestine College Protests6

    Pro-Palestine protests have erupted on college campuses across the United States. Columbia University in New York City was the first to revolt. Weeks later, demonstrations and encampments have popped up at over 40 colleges nationwide, all calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and divestments against Israel. The impact on college life has been palpable. On

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  • What Thought-Leaders Can Learn from St. Augustine

    What Thought-Leaders Can Learn from St. Augustine1

    Public discourse is at a nadir. There is plenty of debate, especially over politics and morality. But it is generating way more heat than light. People on all sides are frustrated with their opponents. “Why don’t they see the light?” For any single interlocutor, one possible answer is that the person is not actually seeking

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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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