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  • No One Is Coming to Rescue You—Especially Not a Presidential Candidate

    No One Is Coming to Rescue You—Especially Not a Presidential Candidate0

    We are only a few months into 2019, and already the 2020 presidential election season is well underway. Each week, it seems that more candidates are entering the race, especially in the Democratic field. And as the country cycles through its political flavors of the week, social media has become overrun by passionate posts that

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  • An Intellectual Takeout Obituary: Aaron Wolf

    An Intellectual Takeout Obituary: Aaron Wolf0

    From time to time I give readers a peep into office life at Intellectual Takeout, particularly concerning the masculinity and chivalry of my male co-workers. Today I’d like to do the same, but with a bit of a sorrowful twist. We lost a co-worker to a sudden heart attack on Easter Sunday.   Due to

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  • When Tech Elites Lose Their Religion

    When Tech Elites Lose Their Religion0

    Remember the “digital divide”? That’s a media-friendly bit of alliteration, going back to the 1990s, used to describe the unequal distribution of digital access. That is, there were some areas where the Internet and related technologies were scarce — and those areas still exist today. Yet lately we’ve seen the emergence of a second kind of digital

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  • Vive La Différence: A Toast to Men and Women

    Vive La Différence: A Toast to Men and Women0

    In an online article, “Boys Will Be Boys Except When They Are Girls,” Dr. Brian Joondeph addresses the unfairness of transgender women competing in female sports events. In making his case, he offers some fascinating statistics. Here are some of them: Physical realities of strength and speed don’t come in 60 flavors.  Instead, there are only

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  • The ADHD Overdiagnosis Epidemic Is a Schooling Problem, Not a Child One

    The ADHD Overdiagnosis Epidemic Is a Schooling Problem, Not a Child One0

    Childhood exuberance is now a liability. Behaviors that were once accepted as normal, even if mildly irritating to adults, are increasingly viewed as unacceptable and cause for medical intervention. High energy, lack of impulse control, inability to sit still and listen, lack of organizational skills, fidgeting, talking incessantly—these typical childhood qualities were widely tolerated until

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  • Facebook Fascism and the Slippery Slope to Tyranny

    Facebook Fascism and the Slippery Slope to Tyranny0

    Following the recent attack on a mosque in New Zealand by a white supremacist terrorist, I was asked by a national TV network in the UK to appear on a live show to give my perspective as a former white supremacist. (I served two prison sentences for “inciting racial hatred” back in the 1980s.) I

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  • ‘8 Mile’ and the Power of Logos

    ‘8 Mile’ and the Power of Logos0

    “In the beginning was the Word.” So begins John’s Gospel. In the original Greek, “Word” is logos, a word meaning precise, reasoned speech that brings order out of chaos. Jordan Peterson calls it “the articulated truth.” English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge calls it “communicative intelligence.” According to Christianity, Jesus, who claimed not just to speak

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  • The Truth About Georgetown’s Vote for Slavery Reparations

    The Truth About Georgetown’s Vote for Slavery Reparations0

    The Georgetown University undergraduate student body recently elected to pay reparations for the sale of 272 slaves by the university in 1838, which it used to settle debts. In 2019, this amounts to a $27.20 per-semester fee for each student. This is not an argument for or against reparations; it’s about statistical purity and the

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  • The Gender Charade Facing the Supreme Court

    The Gender Charade Facing the Supreme Court0

    It was announced this week that the U.S. Supreme Court would be considering a lower court decision that redefined the word “sex” to mean “gender identity.”    The case — R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC — stems from a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. It found that the federal government could

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