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  • Red and Green Colors ‘Not Appropriate’ During the Holiday Season, University Says

    Red and Green Colors ‘Not Appropriate’ During the Holiday Season, University Says0

    University of Minnesota officials recently distributed documents to employees and student-workers advising them to keep “inappropriate religious celebrations” out of public spaces. The document, titled “Religious Diversity and the Holidays,” encouraged recipients “to recognize the holidays in ways that are respectful of the diversity of the University community.” It listed several specific examples of “religious

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  • Pssst…It’s Not Just Students Who Can’t Write …

    Pssst…It’s Not Just Students Who Can’t Write …0

    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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  • Stop Boycotting SeaWorld if Conservation is Important to You

    Stop Boycotting SeaWorld if Conservation is Important to You0

    In 2010, the death of Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, focused attention on the entertainment groups’ orca (or killer whale) shows. The subsequent release of the documentary Blackfish (2013) detailing captive breeding and training at SeaWorld shifted public perception of dolphin and whale shows from entertainment to something akin to enslavement. SeaWorld was

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  • ‘The Personal Is Political’ is Making Politics More Toxic

    ‘The Personal Is Political’ is Making Politics More Toxic0

    “The personal is political” is a slogan that has been around for a long time, used especially though not exclusively by gender feminists. In practice it has served as an exhortation that people make ideology the sole dimension of their personal identity, that they set aside all other bases on which to evaluate their relations

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  • Hanukkah is About Jewish Survival

    Hanukkah is About Jewish Survival0

    Beginning on the evening of Dec. 12, Jews will celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most visible Jewish holiday. While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in America today of what one might refer to as Hanukkah kitsch, this assessment misses the social and theological significance of

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  • Harvard Students Explain 3 Ways Homeschooling Helped Them Succeed

    Harvard Students Explain 3 Ways Homeschooling Helped Them Succeed0

    If one was to name a leading institution of higher education in America, Harvard University would definitely be one of the first to come to mind. After all, anyone with the name Harvard on his resume is practically guaranteed an open door to all kinds of profitable careers. The trick, then, is to get into

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