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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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  • We Need a New Elite

    We Need a New Elite0

    On the heels of learning that Harvey Weinstein is more likely a talented sexual predator than a Hollywood god, we find out that Bill O’Reilly settled a sexual harassment allegation for $32 million and that the prominent political journalist Mark Halperin is also alleged to have both sexually harassed and, perhaps, even assaulted young women

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  • We Might Be in for Party Reversals

    We Might Be in for Party Reversals0

    Don’t look now, but we might be in the early stages of major reversals of our two major parties on two major issues. A pipe dream? Maybe so. A vain search for silver linings as Campaign 2016 slogs on? Possibly. And yet both reversals would actually amount to a return to a past position and

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