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  • Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury

    Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury0

    Everyone on both left and right these days is demanding rights – but not the earliest and most important one, the historic right to trial by a jury of one’s peers. Today, over 90 percent of American defendants waive that right in favor of a prosecutor’s proposed plea bargain, because, as Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz notes

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  • Marilyn Monroe and the Mother Goddess

    Marilyn Monroe and the Mother Goddess0

    • December 31, 2019

    At present I’m researching a project about Marilyn Monroe, and to get it right, I’m not only reading the biographies but watching the films in which she appeared. Try as she might, the poor woman had a very limited range as an actress and was never cast in a role other than that of the

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  • Disney’s Journey Toward the Dark Side Is Complete

    Disney’s Journey Toward the Dark Side Is Complete0

    Note: Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen “The Rise of Skywalker” When Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, they quickly made their intentions for the universe as a whole very clear. A new Star Wars film every two to three years and further adventures into television as well. Great news right? Then a monumental change came in

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  • California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work

    California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work0

    If there’s one thing the California government is good for these days, it’s failing to address crises that glaringly exist while creating new crises that shouldn’t exist – and then shifting the blame when everything goes wrong. A new California law set to go into effect in the new year is the latest example of misguided legislation hurting the

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  • Breaking a Bad Habit Starts With Silence

    Breaking a Bad Habit Starts With Silence0

    If your New Year’s resolutions include breaking a bad habit, the odds are stacked against you. According to habits expert James Clear, “depending on where you get your numbers, somewhere between 81 percent and 92 percent of New Year’s Resolutions fail.” I won’t promise you a simple fix to break a habit. I do want to

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  • Six Reasons for Optimism in 2020

    Six Reasons for Optimism in 20200

    “The 2010s have been the best decade ever. The evidence is overwhelming.” Those are the words of Cato Institute senior fellow Johan Norberg, penned in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Norberg’s words seem hyperbolic at first glance, but he may be right. In many ways, the world is getting better every day, and

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  • Revealing the Real Cause of Deep State Corruption

    Revealing the Real Cause of Deep State Corruption0

    What could possibly explain the transparent nonsense that is the attempt to impeach and remove President Donald Trump? The farrago of exaggerations and outright lies that the leadership of the Democrats in the House of Representatives are currently peddling makes little sense. Impeachment was a remedy crafted by the Founders to remove a corrupt official

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  • Little Women 2019: Another Feckless Feminist Rendering

    Little Women 2019: Another Feckless Feminist Rendering0

    There’s a lot to love in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women. The film boasts a stunning score by Alexandre Desplat, breathtaking cinematography, and a star-studded cast including Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, and Saoirse Ronan. But by taking Alcott’s heartwarming story to “new feminist heights,” Gerwig has abandoned some

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  • Americans Aren’t Losing Religion, They’re Inventing a New One

    Americans Aren’t Losing Religion, They’re Inventing a New One0

    In the opening prayers of the traditional Latin Mass, the priest and the servers kneel at the foot of the altar and speak these words, “Introibo ad altare Dei…” which means “I will go to the altar of God.” Many readers of Intellectual Takeout “go to the altar of God,” meaning they possess a belief

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