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  • Refugees, Migrants, or Invaders?

    Refugees, Migrants, or Invaders?0

    • September 18, 2015

    Stories of refugees and immigration fill the news. After the awful image of a drowned child washed up on a Turkish beach was promoted around the world, one gets the feeling that any opposition to refugees and migrants is unacceptable. I have a child that age and I see her when I look at that

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  • Refugees vs. Immigrants: Let’s Not Conflate the Two

    Refugees vs. Immigrants: Let’s Not Conflate the Two0

    A couple of months ago, when I first began writing for Intellectual Takeout, I wrote a piece about the difference between arguing and quarreling. I referred to G. K. Chesterton’s quip, concerning his relationship with his brother, that they were always arguing but they never quarreled. Chesterton’s point is that arguing is good, whereas quarreling

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  • Reforming Birth One Baby at a Time

    Reforming Birth One Baby at a Time4

    This week, I had the opportunity to talk about my birth experiences at a local university. I was one member of a panel of three women representing ICAN, the International Cesarean Awareness Network, to speak to a women’s studies class about the issue of birth and women’s treatment by the medical community. About half of

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  • Reflections on the Reality We’re Facing

    Reflections on the Reality We’re Facing11

    In his Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell recounts an incident in which he and Johnson were discussing philosopher Bishop Berkeley’s idea that matter was non-existent, that everything in the world is ideal. When Boswell says that the bishop’s hypothesis cannot be refuted, Johnson kicks a large stone and says, “I refute him thus.” Philosophers

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  • Reexamining Free Trade Through the Lens of Coronavirus

    Reexamining Free Trade Through the Lens of Coronavirus0

    Free markets are notable for their efficiency. Over the course of time, they reward greater specialization that yields more production at a lower expense. Markets gave us the assembly line, overnight delivery, and lower prices for necessities like food and clothing. Appeals to efficiency also figure prominently in the defense of free trade. This is

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  • Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Has Something Many Celebrity Children Lack: A Work Ethic

    Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Has Something Many Celebrity Children Lack: A Work Ethic0

    In his book, The Vanishing American Adult, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska shared with readers his favorite hashtag game from the summer of 2016. It was called #FirstSevenJobs, which asked Twitter users to list the jobs they first encountered in their working lives. The Senator’s first jobs were mostly agricultural, having grown up in Nebraska,

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