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  • Cruelty on the Border; Cruelty North of the Border

    Cruelty on the Border; Cruelty North of the Border0

    Faced with a surge of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers on the Mexican border, the Trump Administration has implemented a controversial zero-tolerance policy. One effect of this is to separate parents from their children. The parents are referred for criminal prosecution and sent to a federal jail. The children, who are not allowed to accompany

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  • Americans Are Increasingly Revealing Their Self-absorption in Their Clothing

    Americans Are Increasingly Revealing Their Self-absorption in Their Clothing0

    Yesterday afternoon an email from an Intellectual Takeout reader arrived in my inbox, asking what I thought of the jacket Melania Trump wore to visit migrant children near the Mexican border. Having read a previous article I wrote on Melania’s fashion choices, this reader asked if I could weigh in with some thoughts. Pulling up

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  • ‘Bourgeois Dignity’: The Idea that Created the Modern World

    ‘Bourgeois Dignity’: The Idea that Created the Modern World0

    When thinking about the astonishing improvement in living standards occurring over the last two centuries, one can’t help but wonder about the causes of such a radical transformation: what explains the unprecedented increase in income per capita that the world has experienced since 1800?  To answer this question, one needs to look back at where it all

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  • Illegal Immigrant Families: The Questions to REALLY Ask

    Illegal Immigrant Families: The Questions to REALLY Ask0

    As is the pattern lately, the country is worked up into a froth about an issue that’s been going on for years. In a week or two, it will likely be forgotten. Honestly, can you remember what the two-minutes-of-hate was about a few weeks ago? What about a month or two ago?   The unfortunate

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  • How Big Technology Is Keeping You Hooked

    How Big Technology Is Keeping You Hooked0

    The World Health Organisation is to include “gaming disorder”, the inability to stop gaming, into the International Classification of Diseases. By doing so, the WHO is recognising the serious and growing problem of digital addiction. The problem has also been acknowledged by Google, which recently announced that it will begin focusing on “Digital Well-being”. Although

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  • Duke Prof: Diversity and Inclusion Offices ‘Should Not Exist’ at Universities

    Duke Prof: Diversity and Inclusion Offices ‘Should Not Exist’ at Universities0

    “‘Diversity and inclusion’ is the moral benchmark of our time…Every corporation, college, and government agency, along with a growing number of bowling leagues and bait-and-tackle shops, has an Office of Diversity and Inclusion.” So says William Voegeli in a recent article. And so says the University of California at Los Angeles, whose campus-wide Vice Chancellor for

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