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  • Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?

    Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?179

    In a previous article for Intellectual Takeout, I commented on G. K. Chesterton’s complaint that the modern world’s perception of the so-called “Cave Man” was based on a supercilious prejudice, or what might be called a chronological snobbery, which was akin to racism. The stereotype that we’ve created for our Neolithic ancestor is of a

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  • Were Americans Really Better off During the Great Depression?

    Were Americans Really Better off During the Great Depression?1

    In the ever-evolving world of social media trends, TikTok has seen its fair share of fascinating and sometimes perplexing content. Lately, a concerning trend has emerged where some TikTokers are romanticizing and downplaying the Great Depression, a pivotal period of economic struggle in American history. Influencers on the platform are making bold claims about the

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  • Were Americans Illiterate Before the Arrival of Public Schools?

    Were Americans Illiterate Before the Arrival of Public Schools?1

    • September 6, 2016

    Were most Americans illiterate before the creation of our public education system in the 1830s? That seems to be a popular assumption, but is it true? If you’re looking for statistics, they’re notoriously hard to get when it comes to literacy rates in past centuries. Most historians of early American history have gravitated toward signatures on

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  • Wendell Berry’s Unsettling Description of Modern Life

    Wendell Berry’s Unsettling Description of Modern Life1

    • July 31, 2015

    “Man is a political animal.” Chances are that you’ve come across this line from Aristotle. You’ve also probably encountered the John Donne line that “No man is an island entire of itself.” And you may have heard them used to justify our life in modern society, where many of us are packed into cities and

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  • Wendell Berry: What We Lose When Small-Town America Collapses (And How to Recover It)

    Wendell Berry: What We Lose When Small-Town America Collapses (And How to Recover It)4

    What does America risk losing with the loss of small, rural communities? Writer and farmer Wendell Berry has spent much of his writing career contemplating this question. One way he has approached it is through his novels and short stories, and his fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, typifies all that is best about small-town

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  • Wendell Berry on Consumerism in America

    Wendell Berry on Consumerism in America0

    In one of my favorite movies, 12 Monkeys, Brad Pitt’s character Jeffrey Goines is a bit crazy, and we are first introduced to him in a mental institution. But there is more than a hint of truth in the following rant he makes to Bruce Willis’ character, James Cole: “There’s the television. It’s all right

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