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  • Should Parents Stop Paying for Their Kid’s College?

    Should Parents Stop Paying for Their Kid’s College?0

    There’s an unwritten rule of parenting in today’s society and it goes something like this: All good parents pay for their child’s college tuition. This rule was most recently exemplified in a headline from The Telegraph, which read, “Parents ‘expected to pay up to £5,372 a year’ towards university costs,” an amount which translates to

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  • Harvard Prof on the Frightening Consequence of Relativism

    Harvard Prof on the Frightening Consequence of Relativism0

    • September 26, 2016

    If there’s no such thing as objective truth, then learning is impossible. School becomes merely the place where one group’s ideology and opinions are planted into the minds of students. Education becomes indoctrination. Believe it or not, that’s how many schools and students today think about education, according to Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan,

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  • What the New Pagans and Christians Have in Common

    What the New Pagans and Christians Have in Common1

    Today is the Fall Equinox, and it is being welcomed by some throwback pagan celebrations. It has become commonplace among many Christians to quickly denounce these neo-pagan rituals and the people who participate in them. They see the increasing visibility of paganism as a fruit of secularism and a sign that the West is descending

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  • Top 10 High School Books: 1900 vs. 1990

    Top 10 High School Books: 1900 vs. 19900

    The other day I ran across a fascinating literature list. Reproduced in the chart below, the list hails from the latter part of the 19th century and details the top 10 titles used in high schools in the North Central region of the U.S. As can be seen, several titles tied for the fourth and

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  • Media Bury Police Officer’s Race in Charlotte Shooting

    Media Bury Police Officer’s Race in Charlotte Shooting0

    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?

    Is Technology Addiction the New Barbarism?1

    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 Barbarians

    How Rome Described Their Barbarians1

    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’

    Famous Educator: Schools Have Become ‘Intellectually Chaotic’1

    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?

    Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?0

    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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