728 x 90

Blog 3 Columns

  • Four Things We Can Learn From the Amish About Technology

    Four Things We Can Learn From the Amish About Technology0

    Picture the Amish for a moment. Do you see dour men in bulky black coats with beards? Horse-drawn buggies clomping down asphalt highways? A technophobic people horribly out of step with the twenty-first century? If these are your thoughts, you’re not alone. Yet according to Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine and author of “What

    READ MORE
  • Don’t Go to College

    Don’t Go to College0

    I can’t pretend to have any insights into the experiences of successful black people, seeing as I’m neither. But I was struck by the video of Robert Smith’s commencement address at Morehouse College, where he announces that he’ll personally pay off every single graduate’s student loans. Unless you’re the personal recipient of Mr. Smith’s benevolence,

    READ MORE
  • 12 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Children Don’t Do

    12 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Children Don’t Do0

    My five-year-old was a blubbering, hot mess. He tackled kindergarten fine nine months before, but the first day of summer camp was too much for him. “I don’t want to go. I don’t want to go,” he moaned, sobbing fat crocodile tears. Most parents have been in situations like this. It’s one of the toughest

    READ MORE
  • New York Makes Rent Control More Severe

    New York Makes Rent Control More Severe0

    Leaders of New York’s legislature have decided to tighten rent control in New York City. They also will change the law to make it harder for landlords across the state to get rid of tenants who don’t pay their rent, or violate their leases, if those tenants can’t find similar housing in the “same neighborhood.” Economists expect this legislation

    READ MORE
  • How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading

    How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading0

    My junior year of college saw me making my way through the high points of Greco-Roman literature. Of the works on my reading list, the Odyssey was by far the easiest to navigate. Deftly, I followed Odysseus past the sirens, between Scylla and Charybdis, all the way home to Ithaca. You see, this was a

    READ MORE
  • Break Up the Social Media Companies to Protect Free Speech

    Break Up the Social Media Companies to Protect Free Speech0

    Donald Trump is preparing to unleash the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as antitrust warriors against the tech giants. And good on him. Breaking up the monopolies on speech might save us—particularly anyone right-of-center—from encroaching online deplatforming, and preserve our ability to hear ideas outside echo chambers of bullied consensus. The First Amendment doesn’t restrain censorship

    READ MORE
  • America: Still the Land of Hope

    America: Still the Land of Hope0

    “In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifetime across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional. Now that blocks good thinking. That is why, in times like ours,

    READ MORE
  • ‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did

    ‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did0

    “There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist in the Babylonian Exile. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been out-Jeremiah-ing Jeremiah as she criss-crosses Europe lecturing about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Here’s how she excoriated “the people and prophets and priests” at the World Economic Forum in

    READ MORE
  • Olympe de Gouges, Heroine of the French Revolution

    Olympe de Gouges, Heroine of the French Revolution0

    Despite the tendency of French historians to depict the events of 1789-1799 in a more favorable light than they deserve, heroes of the ghastly French Revolution are few in number. Hundreds of thousands of people perished in a decade-long spasm of violence, tyranny, hyperinflation, and war – with precious little to show for it. Britain’s Glorious

    READ MORE
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024