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Media Bury Police Officer’s Race in Charlotte Shooting0
- Culture
- September 23, 2016
Violence erupted in the streets of Charlotte Tuesday and Wednesday following the police shooting of Keith L. Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The facts of the shooting remain murky. Police say Scott was shot after he exited his vehicle brandishing a gun. A lawyer for Scott’s family, however, said that the shooting victim “did not
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Is Technology Addiction the New Barbarism?1
- Culture
- September 23, 2016
I have often been called a Luddite. It’s not a very nice word and it’s not a very nice thing to be called. For those who have no idea what the word means, the original Luddites were workers during the early years of the Industrial Revolution who smashed machinery in factories because they believed it
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How Rome Described Their Barbarians1
- Culture
- September 23, 2016
The term “barbarian” gets thrown around a lot, including by our Intellectual Takeout authors in their blogs. In general, “barbarian” is the generic term used by Westerners for someone who do not conform to the dominant culture’s standards of civilization and, in some cases, seeks to actively undermine them. Many scholars have argued that we
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Famous Educator: Schools Have Become ‘Intellectually Chaotic’0
- Culture
- September 23, 2016
Most parents and taxpayers don’t know it, but most schools don’t know what they’re teaching. I can’t count the number of times I have been talking to a public school teacher and they will say to me, “Well, I’ve got to go now and do my lesson planning.” “Lesson planning?” I will say. “Why do
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Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?0
- History
- September 23, 2016
The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state of Athens is considered the birthplace of intellectual freedom and democracy – lasting legacies that helped to mold the ideas that have influenced the development
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Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling0
- Education
- September 22, 2016
At a recent breakfast for reporters, U.S. Secretary of Education John King was asked for his opinion on homeschooling. The Secretary’s most worrisome concern about the movement? A lack of socialization. Education Week reports: “[King] worries that homeschoolers may not get the kind of interaction with other adults or much experience with their peers, ‘unless
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Parents Have Been Demoted to Deputy School Teachers0
- Culture
- September 22, 2016
I was giving a talk at Florida Gulf Coast University the other night near Fort Myers when I noticed a flyer on the door of the lecture hall. The sign (I wish I had gotten a picture now) read: “PARENT FREE ZONE.” I chuckled at first, thinking it was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke to
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How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live0
- Culture
- September 22, 2016
Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford professor of Professor of European Studies, recently published a magisterial book, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. We hear many diatribes for free speech (and some against); Ash supplies background knowledge about how the internet changes the speech issues we face and what we can do to protect free speech in
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Free Sh*t Matters?0
- Culture
- September 22, 2016
Is it reasonable to be angry at legitimate police brutality and to want justice? Absolutely. But let’s be honest about what we’ve seen play out too many times in America. Building on the anger surrounding the 2012-2013 Trayvon Martin trial results, things really kicked off with Ferguson in 2014. Before any real details were known
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