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  • Instant New Year’s Resolutions from Ben Franklin

    Instant New Year’s Resolutions from Ben Franklin0

    Ben Franklin once said, “Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” This little ditty is heavily quoted during this time every year as people make their goals for the coming year. But what many may not realize is that Franklin’s famous quote is part of a longer list of 13

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  • Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 2015

    Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 20150

    Below are Publishers Weekly’s lists of the bestselling books from 1915 and 2015. As you might notice, in 1915 the bestselling books all belonged to the fiction genre:   1915 Bestsellers 1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 3. Michael O’Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 4. Polyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter

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  • A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans

    A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans0

    The Huffington Post unearthed a humorous gem in the want ads the other day. Posting on JournalismJobs.com, a small town Idaho newspaper owner named Dan Hammes offered a reporter job to an individual “who reads.” The description declares: It goes without saying the person we hire will be able to write, spell and edit. What

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  • Why We Live in a World of Propaganda

    Why We Live in a World of Propaganda0

    Among many of Intellectual Takeout’s audience members, there seems to be a presumption that most discourse today is some form of propaganda.   Here are three reasons for this presumption, and why it might be grounded—at least in part—in reality:   1) Our technological society.   In Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, philosopher and

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  • Why does evil triumph?

    Why does evil triumph?0

    There’s a popular, internet quote attributed to Edmund Burke that you’ll see people of all political stripes use with some frequency: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” While the sentiment may be somewhat true, the attribution of the quote is not. Nonetheless, it’s a worthy point

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  • Used Bookstores Experiencing a Revival

    Used Bookstores Experiencing a Revival0

    Think Amazon is taking over the world? Think again, says Mike Rosenwald in a recent article for The Washington Post. According to Rosenwald, used book stores are experiencing a revival largely due to cheap prices and a desire for hard, material copies rather than digital books. Such news should not be a surprise, particularly as

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  • This Doctor Nails the Problem with American Parenting

    This Doctor Nails the Problem with American Parenting0

    Not long ago, the American Family Survey identified a lack of parental discipline and training as one of the biggest problems American families face. But according to family practice doctor and author Leonard Sax, that lack of discipline is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority. Speaking about his

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  • Teenagers: They can achieve so much more

    Teenagers: They can achieve so much more0

    Without a doubt, if you’re a regular follower of Intellectual Takeout, you’ve probably noticed our critiques of the modern education system. For some, any critique of the education system means we must be “anti-education”. Here’s a bit of reality: One can be for “education” while also being thoroughly disappointed in the current “education system”. One

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  • Neuroscientist: U.S. High Schools Are Too Boring for Students

    Neuroscientist: U.S. High Schools Are Too Boring for Students0

    Temple University neuroscientist Laurence Steinberg’s research has shown him that adolescent brains are primed for learning. The problem is, he claims, that most U.S. high schools are not challenging students enough during their adolescent years. As WQED in Pittsburgh reports, Steinberg has spent his career studying the adolescent brain’s development, and has discovered that it

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