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  • Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump

    Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump0

    People magazine recently reported news that a number of prominent fashion designers have refused to work with Melania Trump because they do not approve of her, or more likely, her husband’s politics and language. Given Donald Trump’s often offensive way of speaking about, well, almost everything, that is understandable. Thus, they conclude, if you design

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  • Weak Men Get a Deserved Scolding From Pete Hegseth

    Weak Men Get a Deserved Scolding From Pete Hegseth33

    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had stern words for anyone seeking to skirt the highest standards of fitness in the military Tuesday, as he announced a return to the “highest male standard” for physical fitness. “If women can make it, excellent. If not, it is what it is,” Hegseth said about reinforcing physical standards for combat. “It

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  • We’ve been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years

    We’ve been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years0

    For nearly nine decades, science’s favorite explanation for the origin of life has been the “primordial soup”. This is the idea that life began from a series of chemical reactions in a warm pond on Earth’s surface, triggered by an external energy source such as lightning strike or ultraviolet (UV) light. But recent research adds

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  • We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information

    We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information0

    T.S. Eliot famously lamented, “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” The staff and I at Intellectual Takeout find ourselves frequently asking the same thing. Modern Western man is suffering from an information overload. There are now over one million new books published each year in just the U.S., large newspapers publish anywhere

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  • We’re Overdue for a Reality Check

    We’re Overdue for a Reality Check1

    “Denial,” goes an old Alcoholics Anonymous word-pun, “isn’t just a river in Egypt.” Agreed. My online dictionary defines denial as “the action of declaring something to be untrue, a statement that something is not true.” A classic example of that definition recently happened in Los Angeles. Likely boosted by a media looking for headlines, officials

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  • We’re Buried in Debt with Nothing to Show for It

    We’re Buried in Debt with Nothing to Show for It5

    The United States of America is over $30 trillion in debt, give or take some hundreds of billions of dollars. As shown by the U.S. National Debt Clock, that means that every citizen is in debt for approximately $92,000. The debt per actual taxpayer is about $245,000. Click on the National Debt Clock site, and

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