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  • Why Reparations Make No Sense

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    Among many tell-tale signs of the tectonic fissures dividing the nation, perhaps the most telling is the call by prominent Democrats and others for reparations. A recent proposal by California governor Gavin Newsom calling for reparation payments of a potential $223,200 per black resident pushes the matter once again to the fore. Reparations refers to

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  • Why Religion Should Stop Trying to Be ‘Relevant’

    Why Religion Should Stop Trying to Be ‘Relevant’0

    • January 21, 2016

    “Religion is redundant and irrelevant,” declared famed atheist Richard Dawkins in a debate three years ago. Dawkins’ opinion is shared by many others today, some of whom make up Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook audience. 😉 In an effort to combat the spread of this attitude, in addition to increased secularization and an aging membership, America’s Christian

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  • Why Reinstating Cursive Is a Profoundly Progressive Idea

    Why Reinstating Cursive Is a Profoundly Progressive Idea0

    I’ve spent many happy hours volunteering in a program for inner-city children in Minneapolis since I was a teen. One of my tasks over the years has been helping these children with writing. There we sit, side by side, with me writing outlines and sentences, while they earnestly race to copy my example. Some get

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  • Why Raw Milk Dealers Are Now a Thing

    Why Raw Milk Dealers Are Now a Thing1

    On her podcast The Skinny Confidential, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick made a confession while speaking with actress Gwyneth Paltrow a few months ago. “I have a dealer,” she said. On her podcast The Skinny Confidential, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick made a confession while speaking with actress Gwyneth Paltrow a few months ago. “I have a dealer,” she

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  • Why Rationalism is Key to a Happy Marriage

    Why Rationalism is Key to a Happy Marriage1

    Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice famously begins by saying, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” In the hundreds of pages which follow this statement, Austen depicts many marriages, some successful and some decidedly not. The successful ones –

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  • Why Rachel Dolezal Doesn’t Matter, But Should

    Why Rachel Dolezal Doesn’t Matter, But Should0

    Many of those against the transgender lobby LOVE the Rachel Dolezal case. In case you don’t remember, Dolezal was the Spokane (WA) NAACP president whose parents outed her last summer for having been born white. Yesterday, Dolezal was back in the news for finally admitting, in an interview, that she “was biologically born white, to

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