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  • Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus

    Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus0

    Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference held last week at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte. The annual conference, now in its third year, was

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  • Princeton HR Scrubs Word ‘Man’ From Lexicon

    Princeton HR Scrubs Word ‘Man’ From Lexicon0

    Via the College Fix: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use

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  • LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film

    LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film0

    Funny man Seth Rogan apparently pushed the boundaries of comedy too far in Sausage Party, a computer-animated comedy starring himself, Salma Hayek, Kristen Wiig, and a dozen other Hollywood funny people. The film features a taco (Hayek) who develops feelings for a hotdog bun (Wiig). Get it? The movie is causing a bit of a

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  • Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?

    Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?0

    In Milton and Rose Friedman’s classic book Free to Choose: A Personal Statement they made the following point (this quote was featured on my recent Milton Friedman birthday post): Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant relatively little to the wealthy. The rich in Ancient Greece would

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  • A University Student’s Schedule… from 500 Years Ago

    A University Student’s Schedule… from 500 Years Ago1

    As we at Intellectual Takeout have recently pointed out, today’s college students aren’t devoting very much time to studying. The typical modern student spends less than 3 hours per day on education-related activities, i.e., attending class and studying. Undoubtedly this phenomenon is in large part due to the swelled ranks of college students combined with

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  • 6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School

    6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School0

    In the quest to reform the chaos which dominates America’s classrooms and the stagnation which plagues academic achievement scores, teachers, politicians, and education reform leaders are always looking for a silver bullet to solve our education problems. But there’s something we may not have considered. Is it possible that the path to fixing American education

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