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  • The Contradiction of the Negligent ‘Helicopter Parent’

    The Contradiction of the Negligent ‘Helicopter Parent’4

    In any discussion of modern child-rearing methods, you will inevitably hear the pejorative nickname “helicopter parents.” This denotes mothers and fathers who supposedly smother and cosset their offspring. These kids will grow up to be “snowflakes” who need “safe spaces” to protect them from anything disagreeable in life. My children are currently ages three and

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  • The Continuing French Revolution

    The Continuing French Revolution0

    The values of the French Revolution are those of every radical revolutionary movement that succeeded it, including the one currently dismantling the basic institutions of American society and culture. But there are few historians of the Revolution who can be trusted to avoid propagandizing for it as they write about it. Pierre Gaxotte’s splendidly literate account,

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  • The Constitution of the Killing Fields

    The Constitution of the Killing Fields0

    The contents of a nation’s constitution, its most supreme law, ought to be composed with care and precision and implemented with scrupulous fidelity. Otherwise, there’s not much point in having one. Imagine a board game (like “Scrabble,” “Monopoly,” or “chess”) that came with these instructions: If there were an award for Worst Constitution of All

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  • The Consequences of an Anti-Male Culture

    The Consequences of an Anti-Male Culture1

    “I do find it sad that not more women are encouraged to embrace marriage and family. I have many single women friends, now in their mid and late 30s, who now feel the clock ticking but have all but resigned themselves to being alone for the rest of their lives.” Such was the response I recently received

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  • The Connection Between Censorship and the Right to Vote

    The Connection Between Censorship and the Right to Vote8

    Censorship is a perennial bogeyman. We see traces of it here or there, but it never seems real … until it lands on the doorstep, forcing you to look it in the face, as I did once again this morning. Longtime readers of Intellectual Takeout will remember that censorship is nothing new to our organization.

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  • The Confusing Logic of Gender Ideology: A Quiz

    The Confusing Logic of Gender Ideology: A Quiz0

    No one should accept the new transgender ideology unless he can answer the following 10 questions with answers that actually make sense: 1. If it is “impossible for a man to feel what a woman feels” (as men are often told), then how could a man ever “transition” to a woman because he “feels like

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