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Blog 3 Columns

  • Morality and Immigration: 4 Overlooked Stats Everyone Is Missing in the Border Crisis Debate

    Morality and Immigration: 4 Overlooked Stats Everyone Is Missing in the Border Crisis Debate0

    The humanitarian crisis unfolding on America’s southern border is a tragic scene. Reports state that Department of Health and Human Services has been taking in about 250 children per day in recent weeks as immigrants from South America—primarily from the nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—pour into America. By August, the department could have

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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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  • Student, 13, Charged With Felony for Recording a Conversation With His Principal

    Student, 13, Charged With Felony for Recording a Conversation With His Principal0

    Paul Boron is 13 years old. And he’s facing a felony eavesdropping charge that could change the course of the rest of his life. His story stands as another chapter of controversy surrounding an eavesdropping law some experts have criticized as ripe for abuse and misapplication. On Feb. 16, 2018, Boron was called to the principal’s office

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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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