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Climate Hypocrites Everywhere4
“What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil.” So said Elon Musk last week, in a colorful interview that almost broke the internet. Replying to questions from New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin about an advertiser boycott of pro-free speech platform X, the tech tycoon
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Why Is There A Dyslexia Epidemic?4
- Education
- December 7, 2023
The earliest documented cases of dyslexia, or a language processing disorder that makes it difficult to read, date back more than a century. For decades, it was considered a relatively rare occurrence, but today it is estimated that up to 20 percent of the US population is dyslexic. What is going on? Advances in childhood diagnosis and
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How You Can Help ‘Intellectual Takeout’ Restore the Culture0
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- December 6, 2023
When my third grandchild was recently born, I was wonderfully reminded why I am involved with Intellectual Takeout as the leader of its parent organization, the Charlemagne Institute: Both these things point to the things that really matter in life. Our articles are signposts toward truth. When reading an article on education, a reader might
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Far Left Drives 44 Percent Hate Crime Increase Against European Christians0
- Culture, Featured, International, Religion
- December 6, 2023
Anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe have risen by 44 percent in just one year, with far-left groups behind a majority of the attacks, according to a shocking new report. Published in October, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe’s Annual Report detailed a wave of violent attacks, church arson, and rising extremism
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Doctor Suspended by Mayo Clinic for True Statements About COVID and Testosterone Brings Lawsuit2
- Science
- December 6, 2023
On November 13, a professor at the Mayo Clinic’s College of Medicine sued the college after it punished him for stating medical truths about topics such as testosterone’s effects on athletic performance. Anesthesiology Professor Dr. Michael Joyner’s court complaint states that Mayo Clinic leaders violated anti-retaliation, academic freedom and appeals procedure policies in his employee contract. The
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Overturning ‘Roe v. Wade’ Has Already Saved 32,000 Babies2
You know there’s something to celebrate when The New York Times is forced to report in its headline: “The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term.” The number of infant lives saved by last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision
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7 Forgotten Christmas Traditions to Bring Back0
- Culture
- December 5, 2023
Tradition is the cumulative experience of thousands of human lives. It is the conclusions reached by countless ancestors who tested what it meant to live well. Unfortunately, we are losing many of our traditions and their accompanying wisdom, abandoning the practices by which we speak to the past, and the past speaks to us. One
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If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One1
“I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.” When deciding how his own children would be educated, Musk rejected traditional schooling and created his own project-based microschool, Ad Astra, in 2014, on his SpaceX campus. “The kids really love going to school,” said
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What Is Advent and Why Does It Matter?0
Sunday, December 3 marks the beginning of Advent for 2023. But what exactly is Advent, and why does it matter? Advent comes from the Latin adventus, which means “coming.” In simple terms, Advent is the period on the church calendar directly preceding Christmas. Within the Christian worldview, Advent is a special time of preparation and
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