Blog 3 Columns

Stop Calling the ‘Freedom Caucus’ the ‘Rebellious Far Right Wing’0
- Culture
- March 27, 2017
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 0
- Economics
- March 27, 2017
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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Feminist Author: Women Need to Stop Playing the Victim 0
- Culture
- March 27, 2017
Ask most feminists who the foremost victim in society is and they will likely say women. Fay Weldon, British feminist and author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil likely would have said the same at one point in life. Now, however, she suggests that women are clinging to victimhood they no longer have
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FBI Agent Posing as Islamic Radical Was at the Scene of ISIS Terror Attack, 60 Minutes Reveals 0
- Culture
- March 27, 2017
The two terrorists arrived at the cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas, with assault rifles and started shooting. They didn’t get very far. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi were killed by local law enforcement before they killed anyone on May 3, 2015. But nearly two years later, a 60 Minutes segment revealed several troubling
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Fascism Has Left and Right Wing Roots 1
- History
- March 27, 2017
An analogy is haunting the United States – the analogy of fascism. It is virtually impossible (outside certain parts of the Right-wing itself) to try to understand the resurgent Right without hearing it described as – or compared with – 20th-century interwar fascism. Like fascism, the resurgent Right is irrational, close-minded, violent and racist. So
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Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think 0
- Culture
- March 24, 2017
More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more than 2,300 undergraduates at colleges and universities across the country found that many of those students improved little, if at all, in key areas—especially critical
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John Milton’s Lucifer: The Reason People Like Him 0
- Culture
- March 24, 2017
In an article for The Atlantic on March 16, Edward Simon endeavors to get to grips with the fascination that Americans feel for the character of Lucifer in John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. In a well-written and well-reasoned article, Simon sees aspects of Milton’s Satan in the characterization of thoroughly modern anti-heroes in contemporary
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Dangers of the Witch Hunts in Washington 0
- History
- March 24, 2017
As an anthropologist, I know that all groups of people use informal practices of social control in day-to-day interactions. Controlling disruptive behavior is necessary for maintaining social order, but the forms of control vary. How will President Donald Trump control behavior he finds disruptive? The question came to me when Trump called the investigation of
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Court Rules That the Truth about Milk Can Finally be Told 0
- Economics
- March 24, 2017
In a unanimous decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vindicated Ocheesee Creamery’s free speech rights when it reversed a district court’s decision that prevented the creamery from telling its customers the truth about the products it sells. Ocheesee Creamery is a small, all-natural dairy farm located in rural Florida that
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Stop Calling the ‘Freedom Caucus’ the ‘Rebellious Far Right Wing’0