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  • We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror

    We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror14

    In the end, the only memorable stories, like the only memorable experiences, are religious and moral. They give men the heart to suffer the ordeal of a life that perpetually rends them between its beauty and its terror. These two sentences, written by Whittaker Chambers, quite literally stopped me in my tracks when I first

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  • We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College

    We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College0

    Last year, Pew Charitable Trusts reported that eight in ten Americans are in debt. Much of that debt stems from home mortgage loans, but as a new chart from Slate demonstrates, the last ten years have also seen an explosion in debt from student loans. Such an explosion is not surprising considering the push to

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  • We Need to Stop Assuming Progress Is Always Positive

    We Need to Stop Assuming Progress Is Always Positive0

    Franco. Mussolini. Stalin. Hitler. Castro. Mao Ze Dong. Pol Pot.   The 20th century was full of dictatorships which reached new heights of cruelty and butchery never imagined in centuries prior. Unfortunately, this cruelty flies in the face of the American belief that progress is undeniable and a decidedly positive force in human history.   How did we

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  • We Need More Gentlemen Today

    We Need More Gentlemen Today1

    Few treatises on education have had as much influence in modern times as John Henry Newman’s (1801-1890) Idea of a University – a collection of lectures first published in 1852. One scholar has gone so far as to write that “modern thinking on university education is a series of footnotes to Newman’s lectures and essays.”

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  • We Need More Entrepreneurial Children Like This One

    We Need More Entrepreneurial Children Like This One0

    • September 21, 2015

    From the time they are toddlers, many American children are inserted into organized activities. They are taught from the earliest stages how to fit into a mold and play according to the rules of systems constructed by others.   As a result, we at Intellectual Takeout worry that fewer children today are developing that creative

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  • We Need Hard Words to Speak About Hard Realities

    We Need Hard Words to Speak About Hard Realities0

    The radio news hour plays in my car: a calm, dispassionate voice, more background noise than anything. It suddenly registers that a segment on Senate Bill 8 regarding Texas abortion law—now known as the Texas Heartbeat Act—has started. My young children are in the back seat, so I turn the radio off before they become

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