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Do You Know Your Latin Abbreviations?0
- Education
- February 21, 2018
Answers: e.g. = “exempli gratia” (“for the sake of example”) i.e. = “id est” (“that is”) N.B. = “Nota Bene” (“note well”) p.s. = “post scriptum” (“after what has been written”) QED = “Quod Erat Demonstrandum” (“which was needing to be demonstrated”) R.I.P. = “Requiescat in Pace” (“may he rest in
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Young People Don’t Know How to Date Anymore. Here’s Why.0
- Culture
- February 21, 2018
In a time when dating apps are a dime a dozen and major sporting events dish out condoms by the thousands, it would be easy to think that sex and loving relationships are thriving. But recent data shows that such is not the case. Americans are having less sex and getting married at dramatically lower
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Understanding the California Mind 0
- Politics
- February 21, 2018
Nancy Pelosi gave a marathon speech on illegal immigration the other day. But how would she know much about the realities of open borders, given her palatial retreat in Northern California and multi-millionaire lifestyle that allows wealthy progressives like herself to be exempt from the consequences of her own hectoring? In the end, the House
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4 Reasons Congress Doesn’t “Act” on Gun Violence 0
- Politics
- February 21, 2018
The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has again created a debate over whether or not the country needs additional gun control laws. Rather than wading into that debate, perhaps we should explore why so little progress is made on this issue. After each of the recent mass shootings or school shootings we have seen
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Confused Wellesley Students Protest Scholar Believing She Opposes Transgender Rights (She Doesn’t)0
- Education
- February 21, 2018
Some 100 Wellesley students last week turned out to protest the lecture of Dr. Alice Dreger, a bioethicist and former professor at the University of Northwestern and Michigan State, who’d been invited to speak by the school’s Freedom Project. Following her lecture, Dreger was confronted by lines of protesting students. Some of them wore masks;
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Is Western Civilization Committing Suicide?0
- History
- February 20, 2018
In the past century there have been numerous thinkers who have outlined the signs of the decline of Western Civilization. We have mentioned many of them in articles for Intellectual Takeout: Richard Weaver, Georges Bernanos, Alasdair MacIntyre, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Samuel Huntington, David Bentley Hart, and Rod Dreher. I will now add another one to the
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