Blog 3 Columns

How the Bible Won a WWI Battle 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
Several weeks ago, I made the claim that a culturally literate person knows the Bible. Because the Bible was a part of common culture for so many centuries, those who fail to familiarize themselves with its contents cut themselves off from deeper historical and cultural understanding. I was reminded today just how valuable that knowledge
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How Democrats Lost America’s Working Class 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2016
I grew up in a blue-collar town in Wisconsin. Back home we make paper, lots of it. You can tell what we do by the smell of the town, a sulfuric scent that comes and never quite goes (the smell of money, people used to like to say). I grew up in a good Republican
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Elites and Big Media Still Can’t Understand Why Trump Won 0
- Politics
- November 11, 2016
In the days following the election, the webpages of the major media showed why they were so far off the mark in assuming, and largely promoting, a Clinton victory. The early morning shock and confusion among the millionaire-media class is striking. But almost all of the posts and articles illustrate and perpetuate many of the
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‘Race, Class, Gender’—The Left Now Only Has 2 of the 3 0
- Politics
- November 11, 2016
“Race, class, gender.” For more than a generation now, the academic left has relied on these as hermeneutical keys for interpreting just about everything. I recall the great historian of Victorian England Gertrude Himmelfarb, speaking wryly at a 1980’s convention of the American Historical Association: “Professors might as well create a keyboard shortcut for the
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Why Don’t Conservatives Just Take Their Kids Out of Public Schools?1
- Education
- November 10, 2016
Conservatives have many ideological complaints about the current public education system: the way it indoctrinates their children, the way it teaches them history, the way it institutionalizes them. Their most recent issue (which, arguably, many liberal parents have a problem with, too) is over the federal government’s mandate that a transgender boy at a Chicago-area
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The Everyman Election the Pollsters Didn’t See Coming 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2016
‘Can you hear me now?’ should be the headline. Establishment, inside, elite politicians and media have heard and are still stunned. They don’t quite know yet what to make of the results of Election 2016 in America because as of the moment this is being written, the results aren’t yet fully in. But from what
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Schools Offer ‘Emotional Support’ to Kids After Election 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2016
In many school districts across the country, the day after the election was greeted with tears, shock, and intensified efforts for support and counseling. St. Paul Public Schools, a district in Intellectual Takeout’s backyard, was one of those districts: “Supervisory counselors were slated to check in with school staff to identify any schools that are
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Sacrificing Diversity in the Name of ‘Diversity’0
- Culture
- November 10, 2016
Several days ago, Intellectual Takeout highlighted the plight of a college professor who is being persecuted for questioning the validity of the college’s “diversity” program. Students marched on the president’s office demanding that the professor be fired; the president, kowtowing before the student bullies, issued a statement affirming the “diversity” program that the professor had
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President of Ivy League School ‘Concerned’ as Campus Reels Following Trump Win 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2016
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger urged the student body and Columbia faculty to return to the school’s “fundamental values” following Donald Trump’s surprising presidential victory Tuesday, which triggered a firestorm on campus. “I am writing because of concerns for our community arising out of yesterday’s national election. Certainly, not in my lifetime has there been
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How the Bible Won a WWI Battle 0