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  • Prof Issues ‘Trigger Warning’ to His Editing Class

    Prof Issues ‘Trigger Warning’ to His Editing Class0

    Take any stack of student essays these day, and you’ll most likely get a “basket of deplorables.”   As we at Intellectual Takeout have pointed out on several occasions, only about 25% of America’s high school seniors are proficient in writing. We don’t really place most of the blame for this on the students. Chances

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  • ‘South Park’ Takes Aim at Colin Kaepernick in New Trailer

    ‘South Park’ Takes Aim at Colin Kaepernick in New Trailer0

    South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have joined the Colin Kaepernick vs. the National Anthem fray. A newly released trailer for Season 20 (!) shows a chorus of South Park residents singing about how great the (backup) San Francisco 49er quarterback is. The characters quickly change their tune, however. Take a look:  

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  • Profs to Students: Drop course if you’re skeptical of global warming

    Profs to Students: Drop course if you’re skeptical of global warming0

    Three professors at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students to take a hike if they were skeptical of man-made global warming.  “We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ‘other side’ of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course,” professors Rebecca

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  • That Guy Who Tried to Assassinate George Washington in 1776

    That Guy Who Tried to Assassinate George Washington in 17760

    In June 1776, when the future of the American colonies looked bleak, a plot to assassinate Gen. George Washington was laid bare. Washington and the Continental Army were in New York, a city described by one historian as “a citadel of Tory sentiment.” Because Loyalist sentiment was so strong, many feared for the safety of

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  • Are Schools Underestimating What Students Are Capable Of?

    Are Schools Underestimating What Students Are Capable Of?0

    Over the weekend, The Washington Post carried an interesting article on the national surge in students taking advanced placement (AP) courses. Profiling a student named Maria Flores, The Post reported: “Maria Flores was not a strong writer, and she knew that rhetorical essay assignments and analyzing complex texts would be a huge challenge. That’s why

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  • Students Today Should Read More Nonfiction

    Students Today Should Read More Nonfiction1

    I’m going to say something that’s heresy to many people today: I’m not a big fan of novels. Mind you, I don’t celebrate this fact. In his Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis noted that he didn’t care for the company of small children, but he considered this a fault in himself. I have an analogous

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