Ben Franklin once said, “Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” This little ditty is heavily quoted during this time every year as people make their goals for the coming year. But what many may not realize is that Franklin’s famous quote is part of a longer list of 13
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Below are Publishers Weekly’s lists of the bestselling books from 1915 and 2015. As you might notice, in 1915 the bestselling books all belonged to the fiction genre: 1915 Bestsellers 1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 3. Michael O’Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 4. Polyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter
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The Huffington Post unearthed a humorous gem in the want ads the other day. Posting on JournalismJobs.com, a small town Idaho newspaper owner named Dan Hammes offered a reporter job to an individual “who reads.” The description declares: It goes without saying the person we hire will be able to write, spell and edit. What
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Among many of Intellectual Takeout’s audience members, there seems to be a presumption that most discourse today is some form of propaganda. Here are three reasons for this presumption, and why it might be grounded—at least in part—in reality: 1) Our technological society. In Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, philosopher and
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There’s a popular, internet quote attributed to Edmund Burke that you’ll see people of all political stripes use with some frequency: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” While the sentiment may be somewhat true, the attribution of the quote is not. Nonetheless, it’s a worthy point
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Think Amazon is taking over the world? Think again, says Mike Rosenwald in a recent article for The Washington Post. According to Rosenwald, used book stores are experiencing a revival largely due to cheap prices and a desire for hard, material copies rather than digital books. Such news should not be a surprise, particularly as
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