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Our Culture’s Love Affair With Self-Delusion0
- Culture
- June 28, 2016
What better example of the Zeitgeist of transgenderism can there be than Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant? So powerful a theme is it that the French have released what is very nearly the same movie but, bien sûr en français, Marguerite. Both of them have been rapturously received by the critics.
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Literature Quiz: Popular Novels23
- Education
- June 28, 2016
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Do Today’s Fashions Turn Women into Sex Objects?0
- Culture
- June 28, 2016
As fashion experts will attest, Kate Middleton regularly makes waves with her clothing selections. But unlike most celebrities, the Duchess of Cambridge’s style doesn’t usually hit the headlines because it’s scandalous. In true man bites dog fashion, Kate Middleton’s clothing catches eyes more often because it is modest and traditional, rather than sexy and explicit.
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13 J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes that are Absolutely Wonderful0
- Literature
- June 28, 2016
1. “Human stories are practically always about one thing, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death.” – 1968 BBC documentary 2. “Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter — leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the
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When Freedom and the Common Good Collide0
- Culture
- June 27, 2016
One of the things that I really enjoy about writing for Intellectual Takeout is the quality and challenging nature of those who visit this site. This was evident in the comment to my last article about the danger of using half-digested Shakespeare to win an argument or make a point. The person whom I took
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What Philosophical School of Thought Do You Fall In?20
- Education
- June 27, 2016
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Technology is NOT ‘Neutral’0
- Culture
- June 27, 2016
Very often, when I try to engage people on the subject of technology and its effects on us, I get handed a variation of the following line: “Technology itself is neutral. It’s just a matter of how you use it.” This response is usually intended to stop all further conversation about the possible philosophical and
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Professor: Reality Humans Experience is an Illusion0
- Science
- June 27, 2016
What we observe with our eyes is real. Humans base much of their conception of reality on this basic principle. But what if we’re wrong? What if what we’re seeing is what we need to believe rather than what really is? According to Donald Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California,
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Is technology making us dumber or smarter? Yes0
- Culture
- June 27, 2016
The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it around the world. With your phone, you can navigate in cities, buy a car, track your vital signs and accomplish thousands of other tasks. And so? Each of those activities used to demand learning specific skills and acquiring the
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