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Not Your School’s Reading List 10: Inspiring Tales for Young Men 1
- Literature
- March 23, 2023
At Intellectual Takeout, we strive to offer not only commentary on current events but also tangible advice for engaging with our increasingly chaotic world. That’s why we’re proud to present this ongoing series of literature recommendations. Perfect for middle and high school-age boys, these books are a mix of fiction and non-fiction with events spanning
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Verbicide: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language 2
- Politics, Philosophy
- March 23, 2023
On his blog A Pilgrim in Narnia, Brenton Dickieson tells us that C.S. Lewis in his Studies in Words defined “verbicide” as the “murder of words.” Dickieson adds that “Lewis has some similar concerns as George Orwell in his ‘Politics and the English Language.’ Words can be politicized or bent into the service of those
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ATF Turns Law-Abiding Gun Owners into Felons 1
- Politics, Economics
- March 23, 2023
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has followed through on their plan to turn millions of lawful gun owners into felons in the name of “public safety” by reclassifying pistols with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles, effectively expanding the unconstitutional national gun registry. Stabilizing braces are devices that can be attached to pistols
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Arrested for Memes: In Defense of Ricky Vaughn 3
- Breaking News
- March 22, 2023
Once relegated to obscure online forums, memes are now commonplace on the internet. These images are diverse in their content, ranging from humorous to offensive to insightful. And as the Department of Justice sees it, memes have the potential to be criminal as well. Douglass Mackey, the man behind the popular 2016 pro-Trump Twitter account
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Why the Left Can’t Understand the Right (and Vice Versa)2
- Politics, Culture
- March 22, 2023
It’s probably important to preface any conversation on morality by noting that humans often struggle—mightily—to agree on what morality is. While it’s a thorny topic to define and explain, it would of course be foolish to avoid the pursuit of moral truths for this reason. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who
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Two Atheists, Two Films, and Their Call to Virtue 1
- Culture
- March 21, 2023
The 1966 movie A Man for All Seasons depicts the Lord Chancellor of England Thomas More (Paul Scofield) in his final years when he opposed Henry VIII’s divorce and refused to take the oath declaring Henry the supreme head of the Church of England. The king imprisoned More in the Tower of London. Tried in
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Not Your School’s Reading List 10: Inspiring Tales for Young Men 1