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  • Gay and Transgender Issues: Can You Actually Change People’s Minds on Them?

    Gay and Transgender Issues: Can You Actually Change People’s Minds on Them?0

    The irony is delicious. For once, it might justify optimism rather than cynicism. Consider carefully the facts reported in this story by Katie Palmer in the April 7 online issue of Wired magazine: In December 2014, researchers Michael J. LaCour and Donald P. Green published a report of their study in Science magazine, purporting to

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  • Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?

    Education Today: An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide?0

    Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal released a story on the different outcomes between those who take notes by hand and those who take notes via keyboard. According to the article, there are pros and cons to both sides: “Generally, people who take class notes on a laptop do take more notes and can

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  • Dostoyevsky’s Powerful Denunciation of Socialism

    Dostoyevsky’s Powerful Denunciation of Socialism0

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is arguably the greatest Russian novel ever written (which means a case can be made that it is the best novel ever written, period).  Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that Brothers is the one book “that can teach you everything you need to know about life.” Dostoyevsky has been praised for his

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  • Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise

    Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise5

    Although he was in power for only a handful of years, Hitler and his Nazi government slaughtered millions. One of the more well-known victims of that slaughter was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed on April 8th, 1945, a few short weeks before Hitler’s own death. Unlike many of Hitler’s victims, Bonhoeffer was not a Jew,

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  • 4 Ways to Get Beyond Superficial Conversation

    4 Ways to Get Beyond Superficial Conversation0

    Several weeks ago, Intellectual Takeout posted a piece about the exhausting nature of superficial conversation. According to this piece: “Human beings are those whose nature is to ask deeper questions, and we primarily do this through our relationships with others. When these relationships are dominated by superficial conversations, we are not acting according to our

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  • 1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People

    1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People0

    If you’re looking for an illustration as to how much we’ve changed in the last 100 or so years, take a look at this list of instructions for medical examiners from the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York. The document, published in 1899, is basically a dull litany of things medical examiners should do

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  • The Coarseness of our Discourse

    The Coarseness of our Discourse0

    There’s a story floating around today about a radio station being hacked and an expletive-laced recording played through the station’s broadcast signal. CBS Denver describes it below. Listeners of the Breckenridge-based 106.3 FM The Lift radio station heard strange ramblings from an unknown person along with a lot of foul language on Tuesday morning. …

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  • Relativism is Enslaving

    Relativism is Enslaving0

    • April 7, 2016

    Holbrook Jackson: “Truth is one’s own conception of things.”   G. K. Chesterton: “The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one’s own conception is true or not.”   The above exchange between Holbrook Jackson and G. K. Chesterton summarizes the radical difference between the relativist and the realist in regard to

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  • Ray Lewis Rips #BlackLivesMatter

    Ray Lewis Rips #BlackLivesMatter0

    There’s a powerful video going viral right now that features Ray Lewis pointing out the utter horror and bloodshed taking place in Chicago when it comes to black-on-black crime and the fact that #BlackLivesMatter and other groups seem more interested in going after cops than demanding a change from the black community. As he says,

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