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  • Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values

    Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values0

    About ten years ago Dove released a short film with the slogan “talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”. It warned of the detrimental effects of unrealistic body image expectations communicated to young girls through advertisements. Reading this article in The Atlantic, I couldn’t help but agree that in recent times advertisers have even

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  • 3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue

    3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue1

    In 1960, Daniel Bell’s book The End of Ideology was published. In it, he declared what “sensible” people like himself already knew: Ideological commitments are mere barriers to social progress. Incremental improvements in technology, entrepreneurship and new methods of governance, not endless debates between capitalists and socialists, liberals and conservatives, fascists and communists, would mark

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  • Why People Are Freaking Out Over United Airlines’ Dress Code

    Why People Are Freaking Out Over United Airlines’ Dress Code0

    I arrived in the office this morning to hear that another outpouring of outrage had occurred over the weekend. This time, however, the outrage was not happening on a college campus, as seems to be so often the case, but in a United Airlines terminal. The New York Times explains: “United Airlines barred two teenage

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  • The Foundation of Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Philosophy

    The Foundation of Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Philosophy0

    Listening to Diane Feinstein’s grilling of Neil Gorsuch during the recent Senate judicial nomination hearings, you might have noticed a question about the Supreme Court nominee’s opposition to euthanasia or mercy killing. Gorsuch confesses that he wrote a dissertation, turned into a book (The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia), arguing in favor of existing

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  • Stop Calling the ‘Freedom Caucus’ the ‘Rebellious Far Right Wing’

    Stop Calling the ‘Freedom Caucus’ the ‘Rebellious Far Right Wing’0

    My hope is that this article will settle this nonsense once and for all. It won’t. Fake news outlets will persist as long as they are allowed to get away with it. It’s a smear and an outright lie but it goes on often, especially recently. The Background First of all, as you undoubtedly know,

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  • Learning Opportunities From Our Partners at FEE

    Learning Opportunities From Our Partners at FEE0

    FEE, a publishing partner of Intellectual Takeout, has been a leading non-profit organization hosting sought-after seminars across the U.S. since 1946. Recently named by Forbes as a top summer high school program, parents and teachers have entrusted FEE for decades to provide students with safe, eye-opening learning experiences. 2017 programs for high school students include: • June 4-9:

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