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Making Morality Great Again
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- June 12, 2026






A state court in Wisconsin last week issued an order prohibiting a school district from intentionally deceiving parents about what their children are doing at school – especially if a child is struggling with his or her gender identity. The court intervened and issued an injunction Sept. 28 against the Madison Metropolitan School District, the second-largest school
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Search online for “Do American students know history?” and the answer is negative. As is the case with math and reading, the National Assessment of Education Progress’ latest assessment tests revealed that student knowledge of the American past continues declining. College students fare little better. A survey conducted 10 years ago by the American Council of Trustees
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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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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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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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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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