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  • Winning the Lottery Every Day

    Winning the Lottery Every Day21

    • September 20, 2019

    It’s mid-September, and I am privileged to spend five nights at a beach house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at the invitation of a long-time friend, John. Two of John’s other friends, Susan and Franklin, are also here. The weather so far has brought ocean breezes, blue skies, and moderate temperatures. The house

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  • Winning the Culture War One Avocado Skirmish at a Time

    Winning the Culture War One Avocado Skirmish at a Time0

    In 1996, W.W. Norton & Company published Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture. In this collection of essays, 23 writers came together to address culture and its “ominous slippage, a shift towards the bizarre, the third-rate, the purely opportunistic.” Contributors included well-known authors Joseph Epstein, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, Armstrong Williams, and Heather

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  • Winking at Disobedience, Winding Toward Destruction

    Winking at Disobedience, Winding Toward Destruction2

    Training your children to obey will give them a moral compass and the discernment and character to advance the type of government that will make our nation prosper.

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  • Wimpy Men: A Result of Disrespectful Women?

    Wimpy Men: A Result of Disrespectful Women?0

    One of our perennial favorite pieces at Intellectual Takeout is Mark Judge’s Women Who Emotionally Abuse Men. In case you haven’t read it, the gist of the article is that men are on the receiving end of emotional abuse more often than many realize. I was reminded of this concept when I picked up a

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  • William Shatner Defended Laura Ingalls Wilder on Twitter. Now He’s Being Accused of Racism.

    William Shatner Defended Laura Ingalls Wilder on Twitter. Now He’s Being Accused of Racism.0

    On June 30, actor William Shatner tweeted his displeasure with the renaming of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. By Independence Day, all hell had broken loose. Wilder (1867-1957), a children’s author best known for her Little House on the Prairie series, had her name stripped from an award issued by the Association for Library Service

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  • William of Ockham: The Man Who Started the Decline of the West

    William of Ockham: The Man Who Started the Decline of the West3

    In modern accounts of the decline of the West, it’s become common to blame one man in particular for starting that decline: William of Ockham, a 14th-century Franciscan monk and philosopher. Those of you who have heard of William of Ockham (1287-1347) may know him best through the concept of “Ockham’s razor,” which is popularly

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