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  • Shakespeare is Being Translated… Into English

    Shakespeare is Being Translated… Into English0

    You may think that sounds like an Onion headline, but it’s not. According to a Wall Street Journal article penned by Dr. John McWhorter of Columbia University, “The Oregon Shakespeare Festival… has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three

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  • Africa Will Rule the World?

    Africa Will Rule the World?0

    If demographics is destiny then the world will change mightily in coming decades with Africa, especially Nigeria, featuring prominently with an exploding population of young people. The United Nations recently released its 2015 Word Population Prospects report and the findings are fascinating, if not shocking, for those who haven’t been paying attention to global population

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  • Two Types of People

    Two Types of People0

    • October 13, 2015

    As we look around at the world, most of us are just trying to get by. We may worry about the overall direction of the country or the culture, but there is only so much we can do as individuals. Most of us, unfortunately, are stuck on the hamster wheel of a debt-based economy –

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  • American Students Can’t Write… Because Schools Never Taught Them How

    American Students Can’t Write… Because Schools Never Taught Them How1

    • October 13, 2015

    I had a rude awakening during peer review week in my College Comp II course: writing was a struggle for my classmates. At the time, I was in tears as I read through their papers because the editing work ahead of me was so daunting! In retrospect, I should have been crying more over the

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  • Faith is Inescapable

    Faith is Inescapable0

    • October 13, 2015

    We get a lot of harsh critiques of religion from commenters on our Intellectual Takeout Facebook page. Present in many of these critiques is the idea that faith is opposed to reason. In this piece, I don’t wish to argue about the merits of our commenters’ opposition to religion. Many (not all) identify some real

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  • Did Playboy Rediscover Mystery?

    Did Playboy Rediscover Mystery?0

    • October 13, 2015

    Let’s be honest, a good deal of the clothes women are wearing these days don’t leave much to the imagination. Naturally, they attract the attention of men – that’s the intention, right? – but you do wonder if it’s all become a bit boring. As Playboy announces that it will no longer be publishing nude

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