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Books Are Inconvenient – and That’s a Good Thing
- Culture, Family, Featured, Literature
- June 19, 2026






Some readers might recognize the name “Theodore Dalrymple.” It’s the pen name of the iconoclastic British psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, who in semi-retirement keeps on writing books. His twenty-third is Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality (2015). An interview he gave soon after the book’s publication sums up his thesis, which is rather unconventional even if,
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In the world of professors, higher education, and academia, producing high-quality content is essential. Many academics dutifully follow this prescription and produce thousands of pages every year. There’s only one problem. As has been previously noted at Intellectual Takeout by Daniel Lattier, most of the academic work professors produce goes unread (unless you count the
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In an increasingly digitalized world filled with AI slop, manipulated algorithms, and monetized politics, truth is elusive and reality is questioned. Mistrust in institutions, public figures, and even history has deteriorated to total disbelief, and everyone’s either blackpilled (essentially having a fatalist or nihilist attitude) or a self-labeled conspiracy theorist. Doomers are giving up on
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1. “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.” – Proverbs 19:22 KJV 2. “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.” – Proverbs 10:12 KJV 3. “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” – Proverbs
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Wednesday night at the University of California at Berkeley, a huge mob of protestors successfully prevented political activist Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking at a planned event. Armed with bricks and fireworks, they vandalized university property and used police barriers as battering rams. The group successfully breached at least one of the doors, swarmed the venue,
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s army of COVID-19 contact tracers will not be asking New Yorkers if they attended a protest in recent weeks according to a city officials. “No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest,” de Blasio spokesperson Avery Cohen told THE CITY. The 1,000 strong “Test and Trace Corps”
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