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  • Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’

    Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’2

    In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University. What he offered to the students and faculty some forty years ago was not your typical graduation speech filled with banal platitudes. Instead—in a perhaps unsurprising move for a Russian who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile—he offered them

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  • Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives

    Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives0

    Recently several Intellectual Takeout team members attended an appointment at a university in the Twin Cities. While walking across campus, the subject of high college costs came up. According to one member of our group, annual tuition at his alma mater has nearly doubled in the handful of years since he attended. And his experience

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  • Silence is Very Important for Our Brains

    Silence is Very Important for Our Brains0

    As the old saying goes, “Healthy body, healthy mind.” It’s become common knowledge that exercise does wonders for human beings in numerous different ways. Not only does it release endorphins, making us feel great, but it’s been seen to affect the brain in positive and sometimes unexpected ways. Now scientists are discovering that silence is one more

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  • Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader?

    Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader?0

    Last year, a reporter in the Guardian described how the Man Booker Prize judges spent ‘a summer… devouring novel after magnificent novel’, culminating in their selection of ‘a (baker’s) dozen’. This is nothing unusual. The language of eating is often used to describe reading habits. If pressed for an explanation, one might say that to

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  • Banishing the Bible

    Banishing the Bible0

    • August 5, 2016

    A headline in The Washington Post the other day caught my attention by proclaiming “Newspapers were once full of Bible quotes.” The story explained how a George Mason University professor named Lincoln Mullen has recently been going through American newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries and searching them for biblical quotations or references:

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  • 10 Truth-Bombs Courtesy of Milton Friedman

    10 Truth-Bombs Courtesy of Milton Friedman0

    American economist Milton Friedman rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading critics of the prevailing economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, whose mixed economy model became the standard for many developed nations during and after the World War II-era. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family

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  • Why is the swear ‘c*nt’ way more offensive than ‘d*ck’?

    Why is the swear ‘c*nt’ way more offensive than ‘d*ck’?0

    Donald Trump was called a “loud mouth dick” on CNN last night, as most people have probably heard by now. It was not bleeped out, and Anderson Cooper didn’t miss a beat. CNN has not issued an apology. The naughty word was uttered by Liz Mair, a political and communications consultant mostly famous for going

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  • The Student Debt Crisis is Real

    The Student Debt Crisis is Real0

    Normally, leftists get upset if there’s a big industry that charges high prices, engages in lots of featherbedding, and manipulates the political system for handouts. But for some reason, when the industry is higher education, folks like Hillary Clinton think the answer is to shower colleges and universities with ever-greater subsidies. She says the subsidies are

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  • Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions

    Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions0

    For centuries, philosophers have been using moral intuitions to reason about ethics. Today, some scientists think they’ve found a way to use psychology and neuroscience to undermine many of these intuitions and advance better moral arguments of their own. If these scientists are right, philosophers need to leave the armchair and head to the lab

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