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Prof: Why My University Shutdown My Website and Blog 5
- Culture
- December 16, 2016
You might think that student and faculty rights to free speech and academic freedom are overrated. Shouldn’t they have the same rights under the First Amendment that all of us have? Well, they do, but they don’t. Professors and students often communicate their thoughts on blogs on university websites on university servers. University administrators understand
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Why Our Age Is Defined by Propaganda 0
- Culture
- December 16, 2016
There were two main streams of reaction from the political Left following their losses in the 2016 election. One group saw the election results as a signal for the Left to engage in some sustained self-critique, introspection, and dialogue, in the hopes that they would emerge a bit wiser and stronger in the next election.
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How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut 0
- Philosophy
- December 15, 2016
Has a New Year’s resolution ever made a permanent difference in your life? Maybe you stuck with it for the first week of the year. But dang it, January is cold. Some mornings it’s hard to just get out of your warm bed, let alone trudge to the gym, write a blog post, or meditate
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Regretting Motherhood: A Symptom of 21st Century Anti-Natalism 0
- Culture
- December 15, 2016
Bristol Palin is having her third child, her second with husband Dakota Meyer. The announcement a week ago has caused some of cattiest comments any “baby joy” headline has ever garnered, judging from this account. “Now the ‘Pro-Life, Pro-God, Pro-Guns’ Palin is prepping for Baby No. 3,” ran a USA Today headline dripping with disdain. “At this rate it would be
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We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information 0
- Education
- December 15, 2016
T.S. Eliot famously lamented, “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” The staff and I at Intellectual Takeout find ourselves frequently asking the same thing. Modern Western man is suffering from an information overload. There are now over one million new books published each year in just the U.S., large newspapers publish anywhere
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‘Trump Attackers’ Who Tried to Grab this Woman’s Hijab Were Fake 0
- Culture
- December 15, 2016
On Dec. 1. Yasmin Seweid, 18, told police and the media that she had been attacked on a subway by three white men, supporters of president-elect Donald Trump. The scene described was horrifying. [Strangers] stood by and watched as three drunk white men repeatedly screamed “Donald Trump!” and hurled anti-Islam slurs Thursday at a Muslim
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