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Reaching the Phone-Addicted Youth With Small Lessons2
I recently walked to our local farmers’ market where hundreds of patrons milled about and there was glorious regalia everywhere. Strawberry patches with tractor rides to the fields for picking, music playing by a local three-piece band, the summer staple of spun sugar on a stick, barkers calling out to come hither and try their
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences in College Admissions4
- Education, Breaking News, Culture, Politics
- June 30, 2023
On May 17, 1954, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Supreme Court “set aside” the “separate but equal” doctrine in education in its Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Racial segregation would no longer be permitted in K-12 public schools. On June 29, 2023, the court finally buried the doctrine once and for all, along with the
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Friday Comic: Colonial Cities0
- Entertainment
- June 30, 2023
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Not Your School’s Reading List: The Whole Bookshelf1
- Literature
- June 29, 2023
Over the past seven months, we’ve published a reading list every other week. As we say before each list: 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.
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Repentant Former Abortion Doctor’s New Book Explains His Conversion to Pro-Life0
Dr. Haywood Robinson and his now-deceased wife Dr. Noreen Johnson started their relationship as a married couple performing abortions. Together, they went through a conversion and became pro-life advocates. Johnson died in August 2021 due to complications from the coronavirus. And now, Robinson has published a book they co-authored telling their story: “The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical
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Book Bans? Free Speech? The Hypocrisy of PEN America2
- Literature, Culture, Politics
- June 28, 2023
Founded in 1922, PEN America has long been considered a bastion of free expression in the United States. The organization professes to hold tight to the virtue of writers freely expressing themselves, without the fear of censorship: PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United
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The Pill Increases Risk of Depression Among Young Women by 130%0
- Science
- June 28, 2023
“When you review the entirety of the literature and ask, ‘Do hormonal contraceptives cause depression?,’ the answer is definitely no.” In 2020 that was the message of Professor Katherine Wisner, a psychiatrist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Of course, some women who take contraceptive do get depressed, but Wisner and her colleagues knew why:
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‘Close to the Earth’: What America Can Learn From Irish Culture5
- Culture, International, Western Civilization
- June 27, 2023
The average autochthonous Irishman is close to patriotism because he is close to the earth; he is close to domesticity because he is close to the earth; he is close to doctrinal theology and elaborate ritual because he is close to the earth. In short, he is close to the heavens because he is close
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Sometimes It Takes a Baby to Bring Out the Humanity in Us1
Air travel today might be considered the triumph of individualism. It involves people in their own bubbles rushing to destinations with little human contact. It is a case of Hobbes’ “every man against every man” as all travelers compete with each other to navigate inside the lonely crowd. All think about themselves in a climate
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