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  • Hillary Supporter: Fixation on Trump is Ruining College Education

    Hillary Supporter: Fixation on Trump is Ruining College Education0

    During a recent speech given at Intellectual Takeout’s Spring Gala, author Charles Murray recalled a conversation he had with his daughter just over 10 years ago, when she was a student at Middlebury College. At that time, Murray asked his daughter if she had been able to determine the political leanings of her professors. His

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  • Why You Shouldn’t Rage Against Last-Second Mergers

    Why You Shouldn’t Rage Against Last-Second Mergers0

    A scenario many of us experience on a weekly basis: You’re stuck in traffic on a two-lane highway, and the lanes converge into one up ahead. You merged early, and have been patiently waiting your turn behind other cars. Then some jerk zooms by in the other lane, goes all the way to where lane ends,

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  • ‘Empathy’ is Becoming a Joke

    ‘Empathy’ is Becoming a Joke0

    Empathy is one of the trendiest words in the English language today. The Google Ngram below shows how the use of this word has surged in the modern vernacular.    Many people would view this as a good thing because they see empathy—the ability to understand and share the feelings of others – as a

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  • The Taste of Strawberries: Tolkien’s Imagination of the Good

    The Taste of Strawberries: Tolkien’s Imagination of the Good0

    Near the end of The Return of the King movie, while Frodo and Sam are making the arduous climb up Mount Doom to destroy the ring once and for all, their strength fails and they stop climbing. Sam claws himself over to Frodo, takes him in his arms, and asks him this poignant question: Do you remember

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  • Trump Is Falstaff with Power

    Trump Is Falstaff with Power0

    Tyler Cowen’s recent piece over at Bloomberg View argues that the kerfuffle over a production of Julius Caesar that portrayed Caesar as Trump is a sign that we’re living in an age where Shakespeare is particularly relevant to our politics. This is a bad thing, suggests Cowen, because Shakespeare is a writer who specializes in

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  • Up to 5.7 Million Noncitizens Voted in Past Presidential Elections, Study Finds

    Up to 5.7 Million Noncitizens Voted in Past Presidential Elections, Study Finds0

    As many as 5.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2008 election and potentially more voted in 2016, according to a new study by Just Facts, a New Jersey-based research group, drawing on information from other studies. The study—based on data compiled from Harvard University’s Cooperative Congressional Election Study, an analysis published in the journal Electoral

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