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  • The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t say ‘First, Do No Harm’

    The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t say ‘First, Do No Harm’2

    The Greek physician Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC) is considered the father of modern medicine in Western culture. It would be unusual to take an ethics class at a medical school in the United States and not here mention of the author of the Hippocratic Oath.   Many people believe the Hippocratic Oath begins with

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  • That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood

    That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood1

    Interest in Alexander Hamilton, the man commonly dubbed America’s “most brilliant” Founding Father, has spiked following the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway “>musical: Hamilton. While I’ve yet to see the musical, I have read the book that inspired Miranda’s work: Ron Chernow’s stunning biography, Alexander Hamilton. It is perhaps the single best biography I’ve read,

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  • Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome

    Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome0

    Rome was the cultural epicenter of the ancient world. It was renowned for its law and order, piety, engineering, and fine art. But it was still a terribly brutal civilization by modern standards. In the mid-5th century BC, Rome established its first legal code, the Twelve Tables. Oddly, the code was silent on the subject

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  • Kids Today Need More (Not Less) Responsibility

    Kids Today Need More (Not Less) Responsibility1

    My wife and I are among the only 28% of parents today who make their children do chores. And, like many children when forced to do undesirable work, ours do their fair share of complaining and dawdling. In these moments, the reminder we frequently give them is this: “It’s not your job to play.” Perhaps

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  • Eerie: Rome’s ‘Chief Exorcist’ Dishes on Exorcisms

    Eerie: Rome’s ‘Chief Exorcist’ Dishes on Exorcisms0

    • July 15, 2016

    Even in today’s more secular society—or perhaps because we live in a secular society—the Catholic rite of exorcism still manages to attract a good amount of intrigue and curiosity. Witness, for instance, the success of the movie The Exorcist (1973), which was one of the most profitable horror movies of all time. Catholic priest Fr.

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  • Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?

    Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?0

    Class divides and racial divides are passé. Now, there’s bedtime reading inequality. In a recent article for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, journalist Joe Gelonesi asked whether loving families are an “unfair advantage.” The piece asked whether we should level the academic playing field among all children, by having all parents stop bedtime reading in order

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  • Wimpy Men: A Result of Disrespectful Women?

    Wimpy Men: A Result of Disrespectful Women?0

    One of our perennial favorite pieces at Intellectual Takeout is Mark Judge’s Women Who Emotionally Abuse Men. In case you haven’t read it, the gist of the article is that men are on the receiving end of emotional abuse more often than many realize. I was reminded of this concept when I picked up a

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  • Why Progressives Are Going to Win

    Why Progressives Are Going to Win0

    Understanding Progressivism and the Progressive Era is one of the most important tasks for intellectual defenders of ordered liberty. In just under two generations, Progressivism captured the minds of the American intellectual class, which then transformed traditional governance institutions into the modern bureaucratic-administrative state. As Thomas C. Leonard shows in his new book, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics,

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  • Seeing Others as Collectively Evil Is the Root of All Evil

    Seeing Others as Collectively Evil Is the Root of All Evil0

    Philip Zimbardo, a former president of the American Psychological Association, observed that the American soldiers who committed atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison were not inherently evil: “The line between good and evil is permeable. Any of us can move across it… I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil —

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