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  • Batman vs. Modern Art

    Batman vs. Modern Art0

    The secret’s out. My dual identity has been discovered. By day, I spend my time in the company of serious writers and thinkers, such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Thomas Aquinas, but by night I sit down with my eleven-year-old daughter to watch episodes of Batman, the 1960s television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward

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  • Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies

    Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies0

    Kristian Niemietz, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Institute for Economic Affairs, London 2019, 374 pages. What would you say to an amateur chef who baked a cake following a certain recipe only for everyone who ate a slice to fall ill quickly afterward? Being such an enthusiastic baker, they bake the same cake

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  • Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem

    Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem0

    Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of

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  • Incidentally White

    Incidentally White0

    “[T]o speak in general terms of the prototypical Southern conservative we would say first of all that he was not an alienated man.”—M.E. Bradford, “Where We Were Born and Raised” White nationalism has long existed on the borderlands of disaffected conservatism. Among its several denominations is the movement known as identitarianism, which combines the ideology of white nationalism with language

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  • 80 Years of the Allies: Don’t Forget Their Stories

    80 Years of the Allies: Don’t Forget Their Stories0

    September 3rd marks 80 years since the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and New Zealand formed The Allies, declaring war on Nazi Germany after the latter invaded Poland.  Over the course of the next six years, these four Allies would be joined by nations, territories, colonies, and dominions, all fighting bitterly to stem the tide of fascism

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  • The Root of Our Troubles

    The Root of Our Troubles0

    (This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on January 28, 2019.) Like you, I’m horrified by the exponential growth in social chaos and totalitarian impulses ravaging our country. It seems as though nothing makes sense, there isn’t a unifying cause tying together the upheaval of American culture. Of course, that’s the nature of chaos,

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