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  • The Selfishness of the World-Saving Antinatalists

    The Selfishness of the World-Saving Antinatalists8

    Have you encountered the antinatalists yet? This is a growing phenomenon in contemporary America, especially among the young. We might call them the “No Children Movement,” as they advocate a rejection of parenthood as a conscious political act, saying it is morally wrong to have children. You have only to plug the search term antinatalist

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  • The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight0

    Recently, my wife and I had occasion to shop at Trader Joe’s just before closing time. The docks to the storage level were open, and the space inside was stacked from floor to ceiling. Workers were unloading trucks and adding to the brightly lit cornucopia. What happens at night is invisible to the thousands of

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  • Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception

    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 Renewal

    Casting a Vision for Our Civilization’s Renewal0

    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 Culture

    What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture7

    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 Kitchen

    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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