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  • Today’s College Students Aren’t Studying

    Today’s College Students Aren’t Studying0

    Most of those in the Intellectual Takeout audience already believe that college education has become a shadow of its former self… that its curriculum has been significantly dumbed down… and that its students spend more time partying than hitting the books. Here is just one more statistic that confirms that belief. According to a study

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  • Are We All Bigots Now?

    Are We All Bigots Now?0

    First, some terms need to be defined here if this is going to make any sense. big·ot /’big?t/: a person intolerant of those holding different opinions. o·pin·ion /?’piny?n/: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. For the sake of clarity, let us say that opinions are the sort

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  • 5 Brief Accounts from D-Day Survivors

    5 Brief Accounts from D-Day Survivors0

    June 6th marks what would have been my grandparent’s sixty-third wedding anniversary. Although I never took the opportunity to ask them, I always wondered if they chose the day in honor and recognition of the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy. In all likelihood, the trials their generation endured during the war would have

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  • Why the Muslim Mind ‘Closed’

    Why the Muslim Mind ‘Closed’0

    In 1987 professor Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, a stinging indictment of American higher education. But according to former policy advisor Robert Reilly, a much more dramatic “closing of the mind” happened in the Muslim world 800 years ago, and is at the heart of the modern conflict between Islam and

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  • U.S. Students Cheat Far Less Than International Ones

    U.S. Students Cheat Far Less Than International Ones0

    Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the prevalence of cheating at American colleges and universities. What I found surprising about the article was the fact that foreign students, particularly those from China, were found to be more likely to cheat than their American counterparts: “A Wall Street Journal analysis

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  • Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline

    Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline0

    Over the weekend, author and economist Ben Stein made some rather disparaging comments about the presidential candidates for both parties. In essence, Stein believes they are clueless when it comes to important issues, particularly economics. But the cluelessness doesn’t stop at the presidential candidates. According to Stein, the clueless candidates are simply a symptom of

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