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  • The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism

    The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism0

    While Venezuela continues to collapse into a living hell for all but Nicolás Maduro and ruling elites, support in America for democratic socialism continues to rise. Graphic reports such as the recent New York Times photo essay about starvation in Venezuela abound: Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death. His father left before dawn

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  • The Good Christian Men Will Be out There… Eventually

    The Good Christian Men Will Be out There… Eventually0

    “Where are the good Christian men?” Christian journalist Rod Dreher posed that question in an article for The American Conservative, which was republished by Intellectual Takeout this week. Dreher had just met Anna Hitchings, a 32-year old Catholic journalist in Australia, who is despairing of ever finding a decent man to marry. She published an

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  • The Good Catastrophe: Why Everyone Should Read Great Literature

    The Good Catastrophe: Why Everyone Should Read Great Literature4

    When I first attended a Shakespeare play, I have to admit that for the first few scenes I was pretty lost. Shakespeare’s English is of a much older and more formal style than ours, so sometimes experiencing his work is almost like hearing another language. Confused and concerned that the play wasn’t going to make

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  • The Glorious Inefficiency of Local Bookstores

    The Glorious Inefficiency of Local Bookstores0

    Our family lives in the kind of town most people only see in fiction: an archetypal, small, Midwestern town of picket fences and blocks of mostly modest bungalows. Homes lining our main streets are, however, far from modest. Along these stand stately nineteenth-century dwellings, lovingly maintained, in spite of the increasing expense of doing so.

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  • The Global Trace-and-Track Regime

    The Global Trace-and-Track Regime0

    The Biden administration’s vaccine passport scheme is just the teeny-tiny tip of a massive privacy invasion iceberg. A year ago this week, I began chronicling the worldwide weaponization of COVID-19 by big government and big business to trace and track the health data of untold hundreds of millions of human beings. Let’s review. In March

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  • The Global Market Miracle of the 99-Cent Pineapple

    The Global Market Miracle of the 99-Cent Pineapple0

    A few times a year, my local grocery store advertises whole, fresh pineapples for 99 cents. Yours probably does, too. Every time I see it, I can’t help but wonder at the progress of humanity. Pineapple isn’t new. It was first cultivated by the Maya and Aztec peoples in South and Central America, millenia ago.

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