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Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception0
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows,” says Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. Later in the novel we read, “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” In 2020, our
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Casting a Vision for Our Civilization’s Renewal0
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- November 28, 2023
My name is Kurt Mahlburg. I am a husband, a father, and a writer at Intellectual Takeout. Previously, I have worked as an elementary school teacher, a youth pastor, and a cross-cultural worker. I am also a published author. I consider it a great privilege to be part of a nonprofit organization that is—to quote
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What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture7
- Culture, Literature
- November 28, 2023
In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, set around A.D. 500, King Hrothgar of the Danes builds an immense hall, Heorot, ornate yet sturdy, a bulwark against the fog and darkness and barbarism of the age. Under its beams, the King and his thanes and their families can gather, smoke great slabs of meat, and pour out
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Easy Swaps for the Aspiring Ancestral Kitchen0
Many traditionalists greatly value real food and proper nutrition. We understand how our bodies do not prosper on fast food, modern additives, and trendy diets. Many of us are working to get back to a more ancestral kitchen to offer real nourishment and sustenance. Unfortunately, few of us have the resources to actually live like
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Why the Best Gift for Your Child Is a Brother or Sister2
Original thinkers are hard to come by. If you doubt that, visit a diploma mill. You’ll see right off that credentials don’t confer character, creativity or common sense. Academic hubris conflates knowledge with wisdom. Such folks are a dime a dozen. Sui generis Then there is Colin Brazier: sui generis, in a class by himself. Original
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When Inequality Is Fatal for Men0
- Culture
- November 27, 2023
Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase is not egalitarian enough by today’s lights; feminists have long objected to the gendered language of “all men.” Thomas Jefferson didn’t mean to commit a microaggression; in 1776, “all men”
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A Case for Ancient Books: Recovering True Happiness1
- Literature, Featured
- November 27, 2023
Something important is missing from contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Specifically, I think the majority of books today lack a sense of universality—ideas and perspectives that extend beyond the bounds of the society and culture in which they were written. Certainly, it is essential to read works that reflect our own society and culture, but isn’t
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Is Woke Disney Dying?7
- Culture, Entertainment
- November 22, 2023
Lightyear? A flop. Strange World? A flop. The Little Mermaid? A flop. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? A flop. The Marvels? A flop. Snow White? Postponed, probably for fear of a flop. All told, Disney has lost nearly $1 billion at the box office due to films like these bombing, according to box office analyst
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George Washington’s Thanksgiving Message: What A Different Era8
- From the Editorial Board, History
- November 22, 2023
Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of the hand of Providence upon the American Republic is quite clear. Indeed,
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