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  • Western Elites Still Clueless About Jihadist Attacks

    Western Elites Still Clueless About Jihadist Attacks0

    As soon as I heard that a man had stabbed three women to death and wounded seven others in the Bavarian town of Würzburg on June 25, I was near-certain of three key facts of the case: that the attacker was a Muslim, that the powers-that-be would claim to be mystified as to his motives,

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  • Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?

    Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?0

    Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the “last full measure of devotion” to their country. Heart-rending is an apt description of those stories; and searing are

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  • Were the Founders Deist? Here’s One Sure-Fire Piece of Evidence Against That Idea

    Were the Founders Deist? Here’s One Sure-Fire Piece of Evidence Against That Idea6

    Although some of America’s Founding Fathers were deists, rather than Christians, the United States owes a debt of gratitude to a Judeo-Christian moral framework that goes beyond mere deism—and the proof is in the Declaration of Independence itself. Deism refers to the belief that God created the world and endowed human beings with reason, but after that, he

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  • Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?

    Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?0

    Over the past several decades, the environmental movement has promoted a view of American Indians as the “original conservationists.” References to this image abound: “The Indians were, in truth, the pioneer ecologists of this country,” former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall once said. “For many thousands of years, most of the indigenous nations on

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  • Were Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma Caused By Climate Change?

    Were Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma Caused By Climate Change?0

    Hurricanes are tropical storms that can cause extensive destruction and loss of life. The devastation of recent storms, especially Hurricane Harvey, has predictably renewed the global focus on climate change. Multiple media outlets have attempted to tie recent hurricanes to climate change and—to a lesser extent—the role of human activity in climate change. Climate activists

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  • Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?

    Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?375

    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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