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  • California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work

    California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work0

    If there’s one thing the California government is good for these days, it’s failing to address crises that glaringly exist while creating new crises that shouldn’t exist – and then shifting the blame when everything goes wrong. A new California law set to go into effect in the new year is the latest example of misguided legislation hurting the

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  • Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury

    Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury0

    Everyone on both left and right these days is demanding rights – but not the earliest and most important one, the historic right to trial by a jury of one’s peers. Today, over 90 percent of American defendants waive that right in favor of a prosecutor’s proposed plea bargain, because, as Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz notes

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  • Marilyn Monroe and the Mother Goddess

    Marilyn Monroe and the Mother Goddess0

    • December 31, 2019

    At present I’m researching a project about Marilyn Monroe, and to get it right, I’m not only reading the biographies but watching the films in which she appeared. Try as she might, the poor woman had a very limited range as an actress and was never cast in a role other than that of the

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  • Disney’s Journey Toward the Dark Side Is Complete

    Disney’s Journey Toward the Dark Side Is Complete1

    Note: Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen “The Rise of Skywalker” When Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, they quickly made their intentions for the universe as a whole very clear. A new Star Wars film every two to three years and further adventures into television as well. Great news right? Then a monumental change came in

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  • Americans Aren’t Losing Religion, They’re Inventing a New One

    Americans Aren’t Losing Religion, They’re Inventing a New One0

    In the opening prayers of the traditional Latin Mass, the priest and the servers kneel at the foot of the altar and speak these words, “Introibo ad altare Dei…” which means “I will go to the altar of God.” Many readers of Intellectual Takeout “go to the altar of God,” meaning they possess a belief

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  • A New Year’s Chat With the Devil

    A New Year’s Chat With the Devil0

    Ah, New Year’s Eve! It’s a great moment for reflecting on the past, taking stock of the present, and planning for the future. Indulging in the Auld Lang Syne cliché is not unique to humans. The spirit world does the same, or at least it does according to a piece in a 1948 edition of

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