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PC Killed One Professor’s Popular Philosophy Course 0
- Culture
- November 30, 2016
As Intellectual Takeout has explained before, there’s a bit of a void when it comes to rational discourse in America’s high schools. So much so, that some students are taking things into their own hands with after school clubs in order to provide a platform for informed, reasonable dialogue about today’s issues. But unfortunately, it’s
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Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich 0
- History
- November 30, 2016
Was Hitler—and by implication his ideology and the atrocities he committed—the product of increasing secularization in society, or was he rather an example of the perils of religion run amok? This is not just a sterile academic debate, but arouses the passions of many people today. In Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third
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Did Apple Really Kick Breitbart’s App From iTunes?0
- Politics
- November 30, 2016
Some right-wing sites—InfoWars, Gateway Pundit, and several others—are reporting that Breitbart’s app was kicked from the iTunes store by Apple. The word “purge” is being used. Breitbart is one of the most-trafficked websites in the U.S. and boasted nearly 170 million page views in October alone, according to media reports. So the idea that its app
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Are Schools Designed to Keep Kids from ‘Learning Too Much’?0
- Education
- November 30, 2016
In a recent article, Martin Cothran noted that literacy is becoming a thing of the past in today’s schools. There are, he explained, two reasons why this is happening. The first is that fewer books are being read. The second is that the books that are read are of poorer quality – not the classic
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A Prison Mentality Is Killing Our Schools 0
- Education
- November 30, 2016
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5 Reasons Why Fake News is Here to Stay 0
- Education
- November 30, 2016
In case you haven’t been paying attention, mainstream news outlets have been screaming about the problem of fake news on social media. Some have argued that the platform engineers should filter out this false content. Others blame cyber-entrepreneurs for the fake news. Still others think it’s caused by web-bots. And now there’s even speculation that
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Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump 0
- Culture
- November 29, 2016
People magazine recently reported news that a number of prominent fashion designers have refused to work with Melania Trump because they do not approve of her, or more likely, her husband’s politics and language. Given Donald Trump’s often offensive way of speaking about, well, almost everything, that is understandable. Thus, they conclude, if you design
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Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women 0
- Culture
- November 29, 2016
Google’s Doodle greeted me this morning with the reminder that November 29th is Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Alcott, the famed author from the late 1800s, was a bit of a mover and shaker in society, particularly in her roles as an abolitionist and feminist. Yet Ms. Alcott’s feminism wasn’t quite the categorization we consider it
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Journalist Cites Bogus Climate Stat in Speech on ‘Fake News’0
- Politics
- November 29, 2016
At a recent awards ceremony, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour denounced what she described as a “tsunami of fake news, aka lies” that occurred during the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle. Amanpour, a British-Iranian journalist and former host of ABC’s This Week, made the remarks during a speech she gave after receiving the Burton Benjamin Memorial
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