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Stillness Lost0
- August 24, 2015
The frequent texting, the flipping back and forth between apps on your tablet, the intermittent glancing at notifications of social media updates. What these actions both cause and represent is a lack of stillness – that inner state of restfulness needed to focus on an activity for a significant amount of time. Chances are that
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Should We Switch New Year’s Day Back to September 1?0
- August 24, 2015
Let’s face it: January 1 is a lame day for celebrating the New Year. In our Northern hemisphere the weather is cold, and promises to get colder, and many people are still worn out after the celebrating Christmas for the past month. And with changes in the college football playoff system, sports enthusiasts are now
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Should More Americans Return to Gardening?0
- August 24, 2015
Thriftiness is a highly admired quality… but have you ever noticed how hard it is to be thrifty in a grocery store? Food prices seem to be continually high and rose again in July for the sixth month in a row. According to the USDA, a moderate-cost meal plan for a family of four is
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Inflation Has Consequences0
- August 24, 2015
From the Austrian School economist who studied under Ludwig von Mises. The quote, often misattributed to Henry Hazlitt, is found in Sennholz’s article, “Indexing: New Version of an Old Myth,” in Inflation Survival Letter, July 1, 1974. Save this article to favorites
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Character Education: Should More Schools Be Providing It?0
- August 24, 2015
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece which raised the idea of separating sports from school. Many of you agreed that uncoupling the two would be beneficial in boosting academic performance. According to a new poll from Education Next, Intellectual Takeout’s readers are not alone in wanting to see less emphasis on sports in
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11 Painfully Accurate Quotes from Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”0
- August 24, 2015
1. “We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.” 2. “All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt.” 3. “The ideas which
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Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful0
- August 21, 2015
Last year, prompted by Louis C.K.’s bit on the Conan O’Brien show, Morgan Housel at the Motley Fool put together a list titled “50 Reasons We’re Living Through the Greatest Period in World History.” Below are his first 10 reasons: 1. U.S. life expectancy at birth was 39 years in 1800, 49 years in 1900, 68 years
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8 Frightening Characteristics of Propaganda2
- August 21, 2015
Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965) has been called “a far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell.” In it, the French philosopher and sociologist dispels some of the popular notions about propaganda and exposes how it really operates in the modern world. In the first chapter
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The Road to Character0
- August 20, 2015
When this book was published earlier this year it caused something of a stir. I suspect this was because of the unusual combination it presented: a “famed columnist for The New York Times (as the author is described on the book’s jacket) had written a book about old-fashioned morality. It is even a paradox: is
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