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  • Are Your Beliefs Rational? Four Tests to Evaluate Your Worldview

    Are Your Beliefs Rational? Four Tests to Evaluate Your Worldview1

    Theologian and philosopher Richard J. Mouw recounts once seeing a car with a Playboy bunny sticker on the rear window and a statue of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard. He initially assumed that there was a reasonable explanation to the apparent contradiction: a Catholic wife and a brazen spouse, perhaps? Only later did

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  • Children Are Our Ticket Out of the Marxist Mindset

    Children Are Our Ticket Out of the Marxist Mindset1

    The other week British Olympian Laura Kenny announced that she was expecting another child. The announcement in the BBC sports section caught my eye for two reasons: the first that this child was being welcomed into a married, two-parent home, and the second, that Kenny was so anxious and eager to see her baby arrive safely.

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  • Project Veritas Exposes Pfizer and Big Pharma

    Project Veritas Exposes Pfizer and Big Pharma0

    Journalism has seen better days. Once upon a time, the profession involved, at least in theory, a commitment to tell the truth—regardless of who it offended. But in recent decades, journalists have revealed themselves to be more interested in serving powerful interests than exposing them. There is, thankfully, a diamond in the rough: James O’Keefe.

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  • Parents: Take Charge of Your Children’s Education

    Parents: Take Charge of Your Children’s Education0

    Are America’s public schools falling apart? The evidence certainly points in that direction. In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “The Nation’s Report Card,” found historic declines in reading and math scores among American students. Scores by grade level and subject fell dramatically in all categories. In my state of Virginia,

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  • Friday Comic: Old-Time Religion0

    See Part 2. See Part 3. — “Old-Time Religion.” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites

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  • Not Your School’s Reading List 6: Great Men and Their Deeds

    Not Your School’s Reading List 6: Great Men and Their Deeds2

    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. This week’s entries feature extraordinary men and the often-tragic circumstances they journeyed through. From explorers to soldiers to writers

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  • How a Fairy Tale Prince Became an Anti-Hero

    How a Fairy Tale Prince Became an Anti-Hero3

    If there is a figure that is not a role model, it is Prince Harry, son of Charles III of the United Kingdom. His ghostwriter-assisted memoir, Spare, presents not a fairy tale prince but a postmodern anti-hero intent upon destroying the ancient structures around him. The sordid details of the author’s tragic life are best left

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  • The Importance of Reading Difficult Books

    The Importance of Reading Difficult Books3

    In his work The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote that a “reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.” The apparent message in Bloom’s flourish is that a reader ought to be after something more difficult to attain than mere pleasure. Passive consumption of entertainment

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  • Ivan Provorov Stands Fast in His Faith

    Ivan Provorov Stands Fast in His Faith4

    Last Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Flyers, a hockey team, participated in an LGBTQ+ Pride Night event. The team—with one exception—donned rainbow-colored jerseys as they warmed up before the game. Defenseman Ivan Provorov opted out. “I respect everybody, and I respect everybody’s choices,” he told reporters. “My choice is to stay true to myself and my

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