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  • 6 ways Stoicism can help today’s leaders

    6 ways Stoicism can help today’s leaders0

    With the increasing swirl of interest around mindfulness, resilience and innovation we can’t forget that there are many who have trodden this path before us with important lessons we can borrow. Stoicism is the branch of ancient western philosophy that focuses on mindfulness, resilience, creativity and more, all of which allows us to flourish and

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  • The Origin of the Term ‘Dark Ages’

    The Origin of the Term ‘Dark Ages’1

    With threats both without and within, some have surmised that the West is on the cusp of a new Dark Age. We at Intellectual Takeout have wondered the same thing ourselves. Traditionally, the term “Dark Age” has been assigned to the period that followed the Fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. It

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  • What would Socrates do?

    What would Socrates do?0

    Surveying news headlines in recent years, it seems that cheating is rampant. In the athletic arena, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for using performance-enhancing drugs. In business, some of the world’s largest banks have paid nearly $200 billion – the equivalent of the GDP of New Zealand – in

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  • What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong

    What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong0

    By any objective standard, it would be difficult to claim that the Constitution really matters at any practical level in the United States. At a symbolic level, it still means a great deal. But, what a disconnect: that it matters so much in our minds and language but that it means nothing in our day-to-day

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  • 10 Insults from Ancient Rome (in English and Latin)

    10 Insults from Ancient Rome (in English and Latin)0

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  • What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago

    What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago1

    • July 20, 2016

    Here is the curriculum for Columbia University (“King’s College” at the time) in 1763. As you look through this list, keep in mind that the average age of the first-year student was fifteen! First Year Sallust, Historia Caesar, Commentaries Ovid, Metamorphoses Virgil, Eclogues Aesop, Fables Lucian, Dialogues ?New Testament Grotius, De Veritate Latin Grammar Greek Grammar English & Latin Themes Cornelius Nepos

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