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  • How Women Can Determine Which Men Will Be Successful in Life

    How Women Can Determine Which Men Will Be Successful in Life0

    “What are your long-term goals in life?” is a typical question posed by employers to job applicants. It’s a question many people hate answering. But a young college-age friend of mine has the best answer I’ve ever heard. Without batting an eye, she regularly responds: “Be a trophy wife.” She has so much talent and

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  • Assange’s Arrest Threatens Global Press Freedom

    Assange’s Arrest Threatens Global Press Freedom0

      Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. – Thomas Paine, “Common Sense,” 1776. Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in chains this morning. The U.K. government plans to extradite

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  • Why Early Marriage Is Better Than We Thought

    Why Early Marriage Is Better Than We Thought0

    Classic short stories are one of my great loves. There’s no better avenue to a quick emotional payoff or a poignant lesson than a tale that is so powerful it has survived through history. A poster child for such stories is “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, which first made its appearance on

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  • One Simple Plan to Undermine Socialism

    One Simple Plan to Undermine Socialism0

    The United States is in the midst of a national intellectual crisis. Popular support for the path to destitution and tyranny—the path followed by Venezuela, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union—is at an astonishing 77 percent among Democrats. Most young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. The next election might not result in a socialist president, but the gains being

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  • How Hope Fosters a More Prosperous Society

    How Hope Fosters a More Prosperous Society0

    Is it possible for people to improve their lives through hard work, or is the system rigged against you? Your answer – and your results – may depend on your faith. On EWTN, Carl Cannon of RealClear Politics discussed a poll in which the organization asked people whether the American dream is alive “for you personally.” Only seven percent

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  • Hope for the Future is Not Blind Optimism

    Hope for the Future is Not Blind Optimism0

    A Florida reader of Intellectual Takeout sent me a thoughtful email asking a question about my article from several weeks ago. It ran as follows: Yesterday, I read The Long March: Are Its Days Numbered? That essay is what prompted me to write to you. In your conclusion you wrote “That era is coming to

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  • Baseball: The Sport of Thinking Americans

    Baseball: The Sport of Thinking Americans1

    Sometimes you can be in the right place at the right time. For me, it was in the middle of the summer of 1958—a few days short of my 11th birthday. I was at Bill Meyer Stadium to see our minor league Knoxville (Tennessee) Smokies, wearing my little league uniform as I had come straight

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  • What I Learned When My Students Began Jumping Rope

    What I Learned When My Students Began Jumping Rope1

    By now the outcry has been heard and confirmed: Children need recess or other forms of physical activity to thrive in school. But I could have told you that. As a veteran teacher, I stumbled on this fact in my own classroom quite by accident. Years ago my students took the required, but now defunct,

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  • The Zone of Adulthood

    The Zone of Adulthood0

    Like some of you, I suffer from insomnia. Try as I might, sometimes I just can’t close the deal when I put head to pillow. It started in my teens; I would take a walk or swim in an effort to get tired out enough for sleep. But the passage of time has granted me

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