Most Read from past 24 hours






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
READ MORE
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
READ MORE
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
READ MORE
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
READ MORE
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
READ MORE
Were you to peer into my brain in recent months, you would find that a main thought running through it is our country’s desperate need for restoration and repair. Not so much in the physical sense, but in the mental, emotional, and spiritual sense—a renewal of the foundations upon which basic life in this country
READ MORE