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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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  • The Confused Logic of Christianity Today’s Pro-Impeachment Editorial

    The Confused Logic of Christianity Today’s Pro-Impeachment Editorial0

    Christianity Today‘s recent editorial calling for Trump’s impeachment has caused quite a buzz in the national news. But the editorial, which takes on Trump on the grounds that he is “morally confused,” is itself morally – and logically – confused.   There are two separate issues in the prominent evangelical magazine’s editorial which the editors hopelessly

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  • The Confused ‘Gender Queer’ World the Left Is Making for Children

    The Confused ‘Gender Queer’ World the Left Is Making for Children0

    One of my favorite current sources of unintentional humor, NPR, provided another comedy jewel the other day. It was an interview with Maia Kobabe, the author of Gender Queer: A Memoir, a book NPR describes as a “graphic memoir” (meaning it includes illustrations throughout like a comic book). This book has been getting critical attention

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  • The Conflict Over History

    The Conflict Over History0

    A recent report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed a dramatic fall in history test scores among eighth graders. Given all the discussions and concerns about the health of our democracy, the decline of historical knowledge among young people seems particularly alarming. An ignorance of the nation’s democratic history clearly imperils the ability

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  • The Complicated Certainty of Death

    The Complicated Certainty of Death0

    The One Certain Thing, by Peter Cooley (Carnegie Mellon University Press; 80 pp., $15.95). In “This Living Hand: A Visitation,” a poem from this outstanding testimony to a husband’s love for his wife and grief at her death, Peter Cooley writes about the crosses each wore. “Before they took your body to be burned/I scooped yours from

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