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  • NPR: Gun Homicides in Chicago Reach ‘Startling Number’

    NPR: Gun Homicides in Chicago Reach ‘Startling Number’0

    Demarco Webster Jr. didn’t like going outdoors, his father said. Sadly, it’s not hard to see why. In October, the 14-year-old was gunned down while trying to help his father, who was moving, tie a mattress onto a vehicle.   Webster was one of more than 700 homicides in Chicago this year, NPR reported Wednesday,

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  • Friendship: A Powerful Antidote to Racism

    Friendship: A Powerful Antidote to Racism0

    Have you had this happen to you? The topic of racism comes up in casual conversation. Some white person defensively says that he has black friends. He is immediately (and implausibly) denounced. The thinking is that the claim that “some of my best friends are black” is an old canard to cover up…racism. The accused

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  • Countdown: Our Most Read Stories of 2016 (50-26)

    Countdown: Our Most Read Stories of 2016 (50-26)0

    The end of another year is always a great opportunity to look back and reflect. But as many have already noted, 2016 is not the happiest year to look back and reflect upon. In spite of the year’s challenges, we at Intellectual Takeout are thankful for the opportunities we had to discuss the ideas and

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  • Yes, We’re Getting Dumber. But Why?

    Yes, We’re Getting Dumber. But Why?0

    This morning brought the news that long time economist Thomas Sowell is retiring from his position as a syndicated columnist. Curious, I flipped through an archive of his many columns and stumbled on one entitled Education: Then and Now, written in early 2006. One paragraph in particular caught my eye. Like many of the older

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  • Why I Rent a Tiny Apartment Rather than Buy a Big Home

    Why I Rent a Tiny Apartment Rather than Buy a Big Home0

    For one hundred plus years, Americans have been told that owning a home embodies the ideal, an essential life goal. After the housing crash of 2008, that unquestioned ideal is no more. What precisely is wrong with renting? And what is wrong with renting something small? These days, I live in Atlanta, Georgia. A few

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  • The Reason Barack Obama Failed

    The Reason Barack Obama Failed0

    No presidency in my lifetime was greeted with such enthusiasm and unhinged hope as that of Barack Obama. At the start of his first term, a cult-like following had already developed among the intellectual and media elite. It was the dawn of a new age, marked by exuberant anticipation of justice, fairness, equality, peace, and

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