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  • ‘American Journalism Collapsing Before our Eyes’

    ‘American Journalism Collapsing Before our Eyes’0

    • August 22, 2016

    Veteran journalist Michael Goodwin, writing in the New York Post over the weekend, said a tragedy is unfolding before our eyes. Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of

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  • Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?

    Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?375

    In a previous article for Intellectual Takeout, I commented on G. K. Chesterton’s complaint that the modern world’s perception of the so-called “Cave Man” was based on a supercilious prejudice, or what might be called a chronological snobbery, which was akin to racism. The stereotype that we’ve created for our Neolithic ancestor is of a

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  • There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity

    There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity0

    As my boss is prone to remind me, you can’t enjoy the fruit by cutting down the tree. Yet, that is exactly what many today hope to do when it comes to Western civilization: they want a world permeated with Western values such as freedom, justice, and equality that no longer preserves a knowledge of

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  • Restoring the Four Pillars of Education

    Restoring the Four Pillars of Education1

    Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it?  We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a

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  • Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

    Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education0

     Department of Education recently proposed new regulations to punish colleges that attract students with misleading claims. But what if the whole system of higher education in America is guilty of that? In his latest book, Charles Sykes, a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, makes the case that it is. Fail U.: The False Promise of

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  • Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction

    Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction1

    Recently I spoke with a friend who expressed some angst that his 12-year-old son was primarily interested in reading fantasy novels. Efforts to introduce the lad to higher forms of literature were proving more difficult than he’d expected. Not to worry. Fantasy novels and science fiction yarns, I said, are often gateways to the higher

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