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The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary 0
- September 14, 2015
By now you’ve most likely heard about the increasingly sanitized, PC culture that is coming to predominate on college campuses. And on a weekly basis you witness a public figure self-immolate in an attempt to quell the frenzied demand of a mob for an apology. So what’s going on? A recent scholarly paper from Bradley
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Other Things Have a Purpose… Why Not Human Beings?0
- September 14, 2015
In the relativist climate of our postmodern world, it’s becoming more typical to believe that human beings have no single, ultimate purpose – that “purpose” is something purely determined by the will of each individual. But in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle contended that just as other things have a purpose for which they are made, or a
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Don’t Just Read TO Your Kids; Read WITH Them 0
- Education
- September 12, 2015
Reading to your children will have immeasurable benefits for their academic success. We hear this over and over again in the education world. So why don’t more parents do it? Statistically, only about one-third of parents read to their children at night—and that number is probably generous. There will, of course, always be those parents who
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Researchers Discover Why We Think Some People are “Creepy”0
- September 11, 2015
Why do some people make us feel “creepy”? It’s a frequently used term in modern culture, but one that has not been formally studied – until now. Two years ago, researchers Francis McAndrew and Sara Koehnke of Knox College in Illinois conducted an international survey of 1,341 individuals to discover what characteristics seem to provoke
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Parents or the State: Who is the Primary Educator?0
- September 11, 2015
Early in June, the state of Nevada became a pioneer in educational choice by granting Educational Savings Accounts (ESAs) to every child in the state. For those unfamiliar with ESAs, they are a form of school choice which places education dollars in the hands of parents, allowing them to craft a unique academic program tailored
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Only 6% of Americans Got a Perfect Score on This Science Quiz 0
- September 11, 2015
You can take the 12-question quiz here. The median score was 8 out of 12. Afterwards, tell us what your score was. No judgments! Save this article to favorites
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Dining Out is Killing Americans’ Budgets 0
- September 11, 2015
This past spring, Americans’ spending at restaurants surpassed their spending at grocery stores for the first time ever: At the same time, a recent survey showed that “Among those [making $75,000 or more] who are not saving as much as they believe they should because of spending on lifestyle purchases, 68 percent blamed dining out
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This Description of Medieval London Might Make You More Thankful for Government Intervention!0
- September 10, 2015
Many subscribers to Intellectual Takeout are of a libertarian persuasion, and would like to see less government intervention in citizens’ affairs. Understandably so. After all, as you can see from the chart below, the number of government regulations has been increasing for some time now: However, what most libertarians are seeking is not the eradication
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The Return of Multi-Generational Households 0
- September 10, 2015
According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of Americans living in multi-generational households is rising. In a report published last year, Pew writes that “a record 57 million Americans, or 18.1% of the population of the United States, lived in multigenerational family households in 2012, double the number who lived in such households in
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The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary 0