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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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  • We Need Bullies so We Can Be Heroes

    We Need Bullies so We Can Be Heroes0

    For decades now, public schools and society at large have fretted about how to stop bullying. At some point in the 1990s, some time around the Columbine High School massacre, bullying became a public crisis. Public crises must have a government program, which must have a logo, and must have posters and handouts and a

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  • We Need a Post-Kirk Christian Revival and We Need It to Stick

    We Need a Post-Kirk Christian Revival and We Need It to Stick35

    American pews were full the Sunday after the brutal open-air assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The reminder of the fragile briefness of life and the stark display of evil in the murderous act understandably coaxed many backslidden church-goers back to worship. The naysayers believe this won’t stick. It’s up to American pastors to prove

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