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  • Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation

    Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation0

    You are sick so you go to the hospital. There is no medicine. Diagnostic machines don’t work because the power is out. The lights aren’t on either. After nightfall, the whole place is pitch black. You can’t wander the halls. Too dangerous. Small wounds lead to amputation without anesthesia because there is no other way

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  • How Women Can Determine Which Men Will Be Successful in Life

    How Women Can Determine Which Men Will Be Successful in Life0

    “What are your long-term goals in life?” is a typical question posed by employers to job applicants. It’s a question many people hate answering. But a young college-age friend of mine has the best answer I’ve ever heard. Without batting an eye, she regularly responds: “Be a trophy wife.” She has so much talent and

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  • Hope for the Future is Not Blind Optimism

    Hope for the Future is Not Blind Optimism0

    A Florida reader of Intellectual Takeout sent me a thoughtful email asking a question about my article from several weeks ago. It ran as follows: Yesterday, I read The Long March: Are Its Days Numbered? That essay is what prompted me to write to you. In your conclusion you wrote “That era is coming to

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  • One Simple Plan to Undermine Socialism

    One Simple Plan to Undermine Socialism0

    The United States is in the midst of a national intellectual crisis. Popular support for the path to destitution and tyranny—the path followed by Venezuela, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union—is at an astonishing 77 percent among Democrats. Most young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. The next election might not result in a socialist president, but the gains being

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  • How Hope Fosters a More Prosperous Society

    How Hope Fosters a More Prosperous Society0

    Is it possible for people to improve their lives through hard work, or is the system rigged against you? Your answer – and your results – may depend on your faith. On EWTN, Carl Cannon of RealClear Politics discussed a poll in which the organization asked people whether the American dream is alive “for you personally.” Only seven percent

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  • Baseball:  The Sport of Thinking Americans

    Baseball: The Sport of Thinking Americans1

    Sometimes you can be in the right place at the right time. For me, it was in the middle of the summer of 1958—a few days short of my 11th birthday. I was at Bill Meyer Stadium to see our minor league Knoxville (Tennessee) Smokies, wearing my little league uniform as I had come straight

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