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  • What They’re Reading in Ivy League Schools

    What They’re Reading in Ivy League Schools0

    We’re big proponents of self-education at Intellectual Takeout. So when today’s Washington Post claimed there was a new way to get an expensive Ivy League education without paying tuition, I eagerly bit. According to The Post, the way to this inexpensive education is through the Open Syllabus Explorer, which is “an online database of books assigned

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  • What is Socialism?

    What is Socialism?0

    So, there’s a video making the social media rounds with a CNN reporter supposedly asking Bernie Sanders supporters to define socialism. Here it is:      Based on a lot of what we’ve seen in articles and online comments, the reporter probably revealed quite a bit of truth about what young Americans actually understand about

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  • These 12 Simone Weil Quotes Are Genius!!!

    These 12 Simone Weil Quotes Are Genius!!!0

    • February 3, 2016

    The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) only lived to the age of 34. But in spite of her brief life she created a body of work that has garnered some impressive compliments. Albert Camus described her as “the only great spirit of our time.” T.S. Eliot wrote that she was “a woman of genius, of

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  • Repeating the Original Sin

    Repeating the Original Sin0

    • February 3, 2016

    Even if you’re not religious, you should know your religious mythology. As many of the great thinkers of the past recognized, the mythological stories offered (or expressed) important archetypes for understanding our present world. For instance, in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche interprets human life as a struggle between the Apollonian (rational) and Dionysian (irrational)

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  • Parents Are Paying $180/Hr for THIS?!?

    Parents Are Paying $180/Hr for THIS?!?0

    “Executive function” training is apparently the latest “it” thing to improve student performance, and parents are shelling out the big bucks for it. What is it? According to NPR, executive function tutors work with students to improve organization and judgment skills such as “attention and focus, working memory, impulse control and self-evaluation.” In the NPR

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  • Nature vs. The Machines

    Nature vs. The Machines0

    As cool as drones are, we still have nothing on the power of nature. Yes, we can program the machines, but now the police in the Netherlands are training eagles to take them out. There’s some delicious irony here:    Tolkien would be proud.      (Image Credit: SeattleTimes.com) Save this article to favorites

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  • Liberty Depends on ‘Civil Society’

    Liberty Depends on ‘Civil Society’0

    Among the relatively few college students exposed to it, the concept of “civil society” often puts them to sleep. It’s not exciting for people to hear that “civil society” refers to all those “mediating institutions” (another snoozer) between government and the individual, such as family, church, voluntary associations, and charitable organizations. American political debates today

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  • Is What We Have Today ‘Progress’?

    Is What We Have Today ‘Progress’?0

    Is humanity improving each and every day? Do we today know more than our ancestors? Are we superior to our fellow human beings in the past? If you answer “yes” to one or all of these questions, then you probably subscribe to what is known as the “idea of progress”—the notion that human history follows

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  • In Chicago, it’s Not the Cops doing the Killing

    In Chicago, it’s Not the Cops doing the Killing0

    The USA Today has a handy chart showing just how bad Chicago has gotten:  According to the USA Today, the police department has stated that gang conflicts and retaliatory violence drove the “unacceptable” increase in homicides. But the USA Today also points out that the police are no longer doing aggressive policing, such as “stop

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