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  • Maria von Trapp Saved Her Children from Nazis. Austria Still Won’t Honor Her with a Street Name.

    Maria von Trapp Saved Her Children from Nazis. Austria Still Won’t Honor Her with a Street Name.0

    I’m pretty sure I can recite every single song from The Sound of Music. I grew up watching the movie back in the day when long movies had to be split onto two different VHS tapes (and yes, my family still has them), and I still love it as an adult. The Sound of Music

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  • Margaret Mead and Agenda-Driven Social Science0

    Recently, Japanese universities started moving away from liberal arts and social sciences, sending global “shivers down academic spines.” The official reason given was a need to focus on disciplines more needed by society.   There’s been considerable self-examination  about the direction of science at the highest levels, including in recent editorials in top science journal Nature. That’s a good sign: we can’t fix

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  • Marcus Aurelius on How to Turn Around a Rotten Day

    Marcus Aurelius on How to Turn Around a Rotten Day0

    When you wake up in the morning, notice how quickly your mind checks into its physical and psychological ailments. Back pain? Still there. Afternoon meeting to worry about? Still there. Troublesome financial situation? Still there. Did you expect it to be different? If you look for them, there will always be difficulties to drag through

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  • March for Our Lives: Can they answer this tough question?

    March for Our Lives: Can they answer this tough question?0

    Shortly after the Sandy Hook school shooting, Intellectual Takeout created and published the image below. The question is as relevant today as it was then. On March 24, 2018, “March for Our Lives” hosted an impressive protest in Washington, D.C. As the main speakers and the innumerable protest signs made clear, the group seemingly believes

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  • Marcel Marceau Was A Holocaust Hero

    Marcel Marceau Was A Holocaust Hero0

    Marcel Marceau was best known as a master of the art of pantomime. He created the beloved silent character Bip and is said to have inspired Michael Jackson’s famous “moonwalk.” But what you might not know was that before he was famous, Marcel Marceau used his many talents to fight against the Nazis during World

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  • Mao: Worse Than Stalin and Hitler

    Mao: Worse Than Stalin and Hitler4

    American schoolchildren learn about Hitler and, possibly, Stalin, but few know much about Mao. And yet, while Hitler and Stalin were deplorable, Mao murdered far more people than either of his European counterparts—and his tactics have made their way to the United States. Mao Zedong was born in a rural village in 1893, but he

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