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Blog 3 Columns

  • U.S.-China Relations: From Bad to Worse

    U.S.-China Relations: From Bad to Worse0

    The most significant diplomatic event in the month of March was a rapid, seemingly irreversible deterioration of relations between the United States and China. Its signs were on display at the first high-level meeting between the two sides since President Joseph Biden took office on Jan. 20. Held in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18, it ended very

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  • Collectivists Versus the Rest of Us

    Collectivists Versus the Rest of Us0

    My preferred online dictionary defines a collectivist as “an adherent of the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.” That’s too broad a definition, and too flabby. High school football teams, the Navy SEALs, and nuclear families are not examples of collectivist organizations. A collectivist advocates powerful, centralized governments,

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  • The Global Trace-and-Track Regime

    The Global Trace-and-Track Regime0

    The Biden administration’s vaccine passport scheme is just the teeny-tiny tip of a massive privacy invasion iceberg. A year ago this week, I began chronicling the worldwide weaponization of COVID-19 by big government and big business to trace and track the health data of untold hundreds of millions of human beings. Let’s review. In March

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  • I’m the Last One

    I’m the Last One0

    For over a week now, Anders Koskinen, our associate editor and an administrator for our social media channels, has been banned from posting both on Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook page and a personal page. Yesterday, Annie Holmquist was prohibited from posting as well, completely unable to do anything. Here’s the warning Annie received: For some odd reason my

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  • Candy Carson and the ‘Woke’ Media Project

    Candy Carson and the ‘Woke’ Media Project0

    In 2015 Michelle Malkin wrote a column, praising the wife of distinguished neurosurgeon and later Trump Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson. Malkin appropriately designated her subject as the “anti-Michelle Obama.” Her description encapsulates some of the merits of Candy Carson, who graduated from Yale with a triple major in music, psychology, and pre-med,

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  • Pizza Shop Guy, Donut Shop Guy, and Little Old Me

    Pizza Shop Guy, Donut Shop Guy, and Little Old Me0

    Eating takeout food frequently is not a good thing to do, experts agree. Fine, I won’t quibble too much with this. But that doesn’t prevent takeout from being an excellent source of research on the culture of work and the staying power of bourgeois values in America. I offer to you, then, Pizza Shop Guy

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  • Beating the Blues With Homegrown Hospitality

    Beating the Blues With Homegrown Hospitality0

    Last week I invited my young neighbors, Becca and Sam, and their two little girls to supper. I prepared lasagna and salad, and Becca and Sam brought wine and freshly baked bread. After supper, the girls entertained themselves with the Lincoln Logs and Play-Mobile sets I keep handy for my grandchildren, and we adults passed

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  • Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?

    Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?0

    “I’ve known Xi Jinping for a long time. … He doesn’t have a democratic—with a small ‘d’—bone in his body,” said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president, and then he ambled on:          He’s one of the guys, like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, who thinks that autocracy is the

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  • Teaching History Without Identity Politics

    Teaching History Without Identity Politics1

    “Our children need to learn more history and civics!” is a regular rallying cry for those who want to see America returned to its moral and common sense roots. That a greater emphasis on history and civics is needed is evident from The Nation’s Report Card, which finds only 24 percent of American high school seniors

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