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  • The Suicide of Thought

    The Suicide of Thought0

    • September 17, 2015

    It is a year since the event. To be specific, it was in the early hours of the 26th July, 2014 that my son Greg took his own life. It was such a shock to all who knew him, that it would seem crass and insensitive to attempt to draw any conclusions, especially given the

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  • The Suffering of Surrogacy: A Veteran Feminist Spells It Out

    The Suffering of Surrogacy: A Veteran Feminist Spells It Out0

    What do Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ricky Martin have in common? They all bought babies via surrogacy. You might have seen them in glossy women’s magazines. Of course the women who bore the babies are nowhere to be seen; they would have received but a small cut of

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  • The Subtlest Form of Protest

    The Subtlest Form of Protest0

    There is a lot of discussion of late regarding various methods for protesting against government-mandated COVID-19 lockdowns or the results of the 2020 presidential election. Everything from singing in grocery stores to concentrated letter-writing campaigns has been suggested here at Intellectual Takeout. Such brazen displays are allowed in the U.S. because it still has some

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  • The Subtle Conditioning of Social Media

    The Subtle Conditioning of Social Media0

    Like most Americans, I partake in the unparalleled commitment to digital eavesdropping that is social media.  Some of the key vicarial activities participation in Facebook (I’m not a Twitter user) offers are to “like” and “share” posts.  That sounds harmless, right?  Of course, it does; but I would argue that, in liking and sharing posts, we’re actually

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  • The Subtle ‘Tyranny’ of Regulatory Overlords

    The Subtle ‘Tyranny’ of Regulatory Overlords0

    If you’re a business owner, you quickly learn the pains of regulation and how it impacts your ability to survive and thrive. Author and theologian C.S. Lewis framed the topic best when he said,   “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would

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  • The Stunning Arrogance of the Paris Climate Agreement

    The Stunning Arrogance of the Paris Climate Agreement0

    • June 1, 2017

    It was December 12, 2015, when headlines in the world’s leading newspapers, in implausibly bold type, celebrated the “historic” agreement in Paris between all nations of the world to curb carbon emissions and thereby stop climate change: or so they said, as if elites get to say what is and is not historic.  The spin,

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