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  • Not Your School’s Reading List 11: Thoughtful Reads for Young Women

    Not Your School’s Reading List 11: Thoughtful Reads for Young Women2

    At Intellectual Takeout, we strive to offer not only commentary on current events but also tangible advice for engaging with our increasingly chaotic world. That’s why we’re proud to present this ongoing series of literature recommendations. Perfect for girls over 14 years old, these books are a mix of fiction and non-fiction with stories and

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  • The Real Reform of Education

    The Real Reform of Education1

    Unlike any other point in the prior four decades, the push to reform the education system through school choice has serious political support and is likely to be passed in many states in the coming years. Over time, education reformers have met with success in showing how the education system, despite sucking up ever more

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  • It’s Time to Put Away Our Phones

    It’s Time to Put Away Our Phones0

    Next time you go to a restaurant, take a look around the room. Chances are half the people will be sitting in silence staring at their phones. This includes people there with their friends and family. We are so used to this that we’ve grown numb to it, but it’s horrible. What’s the point of going

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  • ChatGPT and the Undoing of Education

    ChatGPT and the Undoing of Education0

    It is official: ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. If you are unaware, ChatGPT is an AI-based language tool that acts as an interlocutor. It can ask and answer questions, and it can apparently even admit when it has made an error. Not bound by the slick walls of tech startups in Silicon Valley,

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  • Identifying the Liars and Living by Truth

    Identifying the Liars and Living by Truth2

    Among our elites—those in government, corporations, universities, the mainstream media, and the culture at large—are many who fall into three categories: the liars, the muddlers, and the dreamers of the day. The liars look straight into a camera or the eyes of an audience and boldly proclaim as truth what many listeners know to be

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  • Homeschooling Is an American Tradition

    Homeschooling Is an American Tradition0

    George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams and Teddy Roosevelt: What do these American Presidents have in common? They were all homeschooled. When we think about traditional education in America we tend to think of public schools, classrooms, and a one-size-fits-all curriculum designed to educate the masses quickly and efficiently. This type of education is not

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  • Reparations on the Horizon in California

    Reparations on the Horizon in California3

    Growing up in the 90s, the prospect of reparations seemed unlikely. I was aware that a subset of the population supported payments to the descendants of slaves, but back then, it seemed as if most people, regardless of how they felt toward such a policy, didn’t believe it would ever actually be implemented. It just

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  • 4 Tips for Financial Stability from Noah Webster

    4 Tips for Financial Stability from Noah Webster0

    With inflation, prices, and bank failures all on the rise these days, many of us are looking anxiously toward our pocketbooks and wondering what we’ll do when the financial crisis inevitably hits. Will we have to start over with our retirement fund, or will we be impoverished in a matter of months? There may not

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  • Defining ‘Woke’

    Defining ‘Woke’7

    In a recent interview, Bethany Mandel, author of Stolen Youth, a book discussing how woke ideology is erasing childhood, was asked to define the term woke and froze. The media has predictably had a field day with this. We can be sympathetic to Mandel’s explanation of the stress she was feeling in the moment. At

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