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  • The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism

    The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism0

    While Venezuela continues to collapse into a living hell for all but Nicolás Maduro and ruling elites, support in America for democratic socialism continues to rise. Graphic reports such as the recent New York Times photo essay about starvation in Venezuela abound: Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death. His father left before dawn

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  • How the Summer Gave Me Hope for the Future

    How the Summer Gave Me Hope for the Future0

    Several months ago, I pulled back the curtain and let my readers know what life as the only female employee at Intellectual Takeout is really like. It was revealing – and even startling to some individuals. But I’ve had a unique experience this summer. No longer am I the only female staff member of this

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  • Justifying Racism Through Language

    Justifying Racism Through Language0

    The best way to grasp how sociology has managed to make color-blind racism (CBR) seem believable is to study its Newspeak (to continue the Orwell theme). Whiteness To many modern sociologists, color blindness is a racist weapon that works, somehow, through whiteness, a scheme of thought invisible to most whites, but revealed by CBR sociology. Whiteness

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  • Why We Fear (and Crave) Commitment

    Why We Fear (and Crave) Commitment0

    Recently, I attended my friend’s bachelorette party. It was tasteful compared to typical bachelorette festivities, but one thing kept us talking. That night, my friend received a plethora of congratulations, too many to count. This might be as expected considering her mock wedding veil and the sash that read, “bride to be.” So what was

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  • Liberation Theology: How Competing Claims of Being on God’s Side Are Testing Our Social Order

    Liberation Theology: How Competing Claims of Being on God’s Side Are Testing Our Social Order0

    Religion is a vital source for change, but it does not yield easily to what the political philosopher John Rawls in 1997 called the ‘public reason’ that enables liberal democracies. In the late 1960s, for example, a new group of radicals, known as liberation theologians, challenged the accommodation of religion to an unjust society. The

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  • Why It’s Time to Treat the Hammer and Sickle Like the Swastika

    Why It’s Time to Treat the Hammer and Sickle Like the Swastika1

    If someone were to ask you to think of either extreme of the political spectrum, odds are you would immediately picture a swastika at one end, and a hammer and sickle at the other. Regardless of your views of the left-right paradigm, or whether you subscribe to horseshoe theory or not, we (rightfully) tend to

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