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  • Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend

    Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend0

    Ever been disheartened by the scores of cars you see in mall parking lots while driving home from Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma’s? The recent push to expand Black Friday onto the Thanksgiving holiday itself seems to signal that the days of rest, quietness, and family time are over. But after a few years of this

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  • Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children

    Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children0

    Last week, my sons’ school went into lockdown. It wasn’t a drill. There was a real threat. Two high school-aged students, a boy and a girl, were discussing an alleged fight on social media when one of them wrote, “I’m shooting up the school at 9.” Thankfully, someone reported this information to the school, and the

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  • Restricting Trade on Endangered Species Just Makes Things Worse

    Restricting Trade on Endangered Species Just Makes Things Worse0

    Every year humans buy and sell hundreds of millions of wild animals and plants around the world. Much of this commerce is legal, but illegal trade and over-harvesting have driven many species toward extinction. One common response is to adopt bans on trading in threatened or endangered species. But research shows that this approach can

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  • Restoring the Local

    Restoring the Local0

    • September 1, 2015

    At present, the stated vision of Intellectual Takeout is the following: “A cultural renaissance in America based on the ideals of freedom, justice, and subsidiarity.” We get a lot of questions about that last word, “subsidiarity”. So, what is it? In short, subsidiarity is an organizing principle which holds that decisions and responsibilities should be

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  • Restoring the Four Pillars of Education

    Restoring the Four Pillars of Education1

    Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it?  We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a

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  • Restoring the Art of Communication

    Restoring the Art of Communication2

    Recently, clips from the Whatever podcast have been making the rounds on the internet. This podcast has gotten a lot of attention for its discussion of the modern dating world. However, one clip in particular caught the public eye not solely because of what the young woman in it was saying but how she was

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