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  • The Original Pinocchio Story was Cray Cray

    The Original Pinocchio Story was Cray Cray0

    Recently while hunting for children’s books with my 4-year-old daughter, I picked up a copy of Pinocchio for a dollar. That night for fun I began to thumb through the book. Now, I recall hearing at some point that Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio was not quite the charming, good-natured lad we all remember in Walt Disney’s happy

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  • The Original ‘War on Christmas’ Was Waged by the Puritans

    The Original ‘War on Christmas’ Was Waged by the Puritans0

    Much ink is spilled every December over the “War on Christmas”—a perceived assault, led by secular folk, on the public acknowledgment of the holiday. But in fact, public-spirited “warfare” against Christmas goes back a long way in our history, and it was carried out by very religious people. The New England Puritans’ hostility to the

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  • The Origin of the Term ‘Dark Ages’

    The Origin of the Term ‘Dark Ages’1

    With threats both without and within, some have surmised that the West is on the cusp of a new Dark Age. We at Intellectual Takeout have wondered the same thing ourselves. Traditionally, the term “Dark Age” has been assigned to the period that followed the Fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. It

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  • The Origin of American Exceptionalism

    The Origin of American Exceptionalism1

    Today, saying that America is exceptional has become a controversial statement. With the claim that America is a deeply racist and terrible country, American exceptionalism is lambasted as a myth. But few today know the origins of American exceptionalism and its place as the main storyline of U.S. nationalism. And yet, it’s only by examining

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  • The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts

    The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts0

    Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection. As a former public health official, clinician and researcher, I’ve been engaged in efforts to control the opioid addiction epidemic for the past 15 years. The

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  • The Op-Ed on Diversity that Got a Best-Selling American Author Sacked by Penguin

    The Op-Ed on Diversity that Got a Best-Selling American Author Sacked by Penguin0

    Lionel Shriver, an American author best known for her 2003 novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, was troubled by an email a colleague forwarded to her regarding Penguin Random House’s new literary and hiring policies. The letter stated that the publishing giant would remove “the need for a university degree from nearly all our

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