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Restoring the Local0
- September 1, 2015
At present, the stated vision of Intellectual Takeout is the following: “A cultural renaissance in America based on the ideals of freedom, justice, and subsidiarity.” We get a lot of questions about that last word, “subsidiarity”. So, what is it? In short, subsidiarity is an organizing principle which holds that decisions and responsibilities should be
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Parents Have a Right to Choose… the School to Which Their Child is Assigned0
- September 1, 2015
Should parents have the right to choose which school their child attends? Conventional wisdom says “yes,” and the court system agrees… but surprisingly only to a certain extent. According to Jacob Gershman at The Wall Street Journal: “Courts have said parents can’t be denied the right to choose to enroll their children in private schools.
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Is Modern Man Suffering from a Lack of Passion?0
- September 1, 2015
It can be tempting to diagnose modern Western society as being hedonistic and intemperate with passion. Many perpetuate this diagnosis on the basis of such symptoms as the loosening of sexual mores, the prevalence of obesity, and the constant search for new forms of entertainment. But according to some modern social critics, it was not
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Explaining the Suffering of Small Children0
- September 1, 2015
One of the perennially difficult questions for Christians to answer is how a good God can allow bad things to happen, how he can allow evil to exist. A standard Christian explanation is that people are supposed to trust that these evil things are part of a divine plan, that God allows evil because he
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Can Today’s Schools Measure Up to This Class Schedule from 1918?0
- September 1, 2015
Have you ever wondered how one-room school teachers managed to teach eight grades at the same time, while also managing to give students a pretty high-quality education? The chart below sheds some light on the answer to that question. Published in the 1918 Minnesota Course of Study for Elementary Schools and Manual for Teachers, this
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What We’re Giving Up by Abandoning Community0
- August 31, 2015
In recent months I’ve been struck by a growing realization: it can sometimes be rather difficult to take an uninterrupted walk when you know a number of your neighbors. The fact is, stopping to pat Fred’s dog, getting hailed down by Carol to see her once-a-year blooming rose, and talking with Janet over the impending
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The Ancient Greeks Didn’t Have Preschool0
- August 31, 2015
Nowadays there powerful lobbying efforts to increase government funding for preschool, and even to provide universal preschool. Since 1964, enrollment in preschool has dramatically increased: It is well known that our modern education system in the West derives from that of ancient Greece, which is still upheld as a standard and goal in some circles.
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Public School Teacher Has Been Late 111 Times in Two Years, Keeps Job0
- August 31, 2015
Public school teachers have some of the most envious job protections among any in the workforce. They receive tenure after only two or three years, which makes it extremely difficult and costly to fire them. The latest case in point: Arnold Anderson, an elementary school teacher in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Over the past two
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Polygamists Sue to Have Their ‘Marriages’ Recognised0
- August 31, 2015
It didn’t take long. Within weeks of the US Supreme Court decision to legalise same-sex marriage, polygamous families have sued to have their own relationships recognised as marriages. Kody Brown and his four wives are the stars of Sister Wives, the reality TV show about the day-to-day life of a polygamous family. The Browns used
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