At present, the stated vision of Intellectual Takeout is the following: “A cultural renaissance in America based on the ideals of freedom, justice, and subsidiarity.” We get a lot of questions about that last word, “subsidiarity”. So, what is it? In short, subsidiarity is an organizing principle which holds that decisions and responsibilities should be
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Should parents have the right to choose which school their child attends? Conventional wisdom says “yes,” and the court system agrees… but surprisingly only to a certain extent. According to Jacob Gershman at The Wall Street Journal: “Courts have said parents can’t be denied the right to choose to enroll their children in private schools.
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It can be tempting to diagnose modern Western society as being hedonistic and intemperate with passion. Many perpetuate this diagnosis on the basis of such symptoms as the loosening of sexual mores, the prevalence of obesity, and the constant search for new forms of entertainment. But according to some modern social critics, it was not
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One of the perennially difficult questions for Christians to answer is how a good God can allow bad things to happen, how he can allow evil to exist. A standard Christian explanation is that people are supposed to trust that these evil things are part of a divine plan, that God allows evil because he
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Have you ever wondered how one-room school teachers managed to teach eight grades at the same time, while also managing to give students a pretty high-quality education? The chart below sheds some light on the answer to that question. Published in the 1918 Minnesota Course of Study for Elementary Schools and Manual for Teachers, this
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In recent months I’ve been struck by a growing realization: it can sometimes be rather difficult to take an uninterrupted walk when you know a number of your neighbors. The fact is, stopping to pat Fred’s dog, getting hailed down by Carol to see her once-a-year blooming rose, and talking with Janet over the impending
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