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  • Parents Just Lost Custody of Teenage Daughter Who Wants to ‘Transition’ to a Boy: What You Need to Know

    Parents Just Lost Custody of Teenage Daughter Who Wants to ‘Transition’ to a Boy: What You Need to Know1

    Parents in Ohio lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter Friday because a judge ruled that she should be allowed to receive therapy, including testosterone therapy, to identify as a boy. Without commenting on the specifics of this case just outside Cincinnati, Americans can expect to see more cases like it as government officials side with

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  • Isn’t Father Loss Part of Nikolas Cruz’s Story?

    Isn’t Father Loss Part of Nikolas Cruz’s Story?0

    In the wake of last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school America is once again embroiled in a debate about how this could have happened again and how to prevent such horrific behaviour and loss of life. Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who went to his former high school on Valentine’s day armed with

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  • Is Western Civilization Committing Suicide?

    Is Western Civilization Committing Suicide?0

    In the past century there have been numerous thinkers who have outlined the signs of the decline of Western Civilization. We have mentioned many of them in articles for Intellectual Takeout: Richard Weaver, Georges Bernanos, Alasdair MacIntyre, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Samuel Huntington, David Bentley Hart, and Rod Dreher. I will now add another one to the

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  • ‘The Last Jedi’ and the Politicization of Storytelling

    ‘The Last Jedi’ and the Politicization of Storytelling0

    There’s been a disturbance in the franchise: Ambivalence, rather than anticipation, has characterized the online response to Disney’s announcement of the deluge of new Star Wars projects we are to be saturated with over the next several years. And while the trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story (scheduled for May) was expected to be

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  • Why Arts-Focused Field Trips Make Students Smarter

    Why Arts-Focused Field Trips Make Students Smarter0

    We live in a time in which education statistics are a bit bleak. According to the Nation’s Report Card, only 40 percent of 4th grade students are proficient in math, while even fewer are proficient in reading. Given those numbers, it’s not surprising that so much attention is devoted toward ideas to turn these scores

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  • Why American Media Fawn Over Communist Murderers

    Why American Media Fawn Over Communist Murderers0

    The CNN headline read, “Kim Jong Un’s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics.”  Then the article began with this gushing report:  “If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister would be favored to win gold.” A Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump, tweeted “You go, girl”

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  • There Are Four Types of Drinker – Which One Are You?

    There Are Four Types of Drinker – Which One Are You?0

      It’s easy to see alcohol consumption being a result of thousands of years of ritual and a lifetime of habit. But have you ever stopped to consider why it is you choose to drink? Knowing what motivates people to drink is important to better understanding their needs when it comes to encouraging them to

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  • Demolishing the Pillars of Prosperity in the Name of Art

    Demolishing the Pillars of Prosperity in the Name of Art0

    Imagine you own a modest house in the countryside. You go there with your family on the weekends, fleeing the noisy and congested atmosphere of the city. Your husband and you are still paying back the mortgage you took a few years ago to purchase the house, working hard to make ends meet. Now imagine

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  • A Trans First: Breastfeeding

    A Trans First: Breastfeeding0

    In another step forward for the transgender movement, a trans woman (a natal male) has breastfed a baby. The 30-year-old transwoman sought help from Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. Her female partner was “not interested in breastfeeding” and she wanted to assist. Although she had not had gender-reassignment

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