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What Homer Can Teach Us About Leadership and Tyranny 0
- History
- October 17, 2017
What makes a good leader? This question confronts us at every election and with every domestic and international policy decision. As a professor of classical languages and literature for more than 30 years, I marvel at our insistence on addressing this question as if it were brand new. Centuries ago, myths helped the Greeks learn
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Why More Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres 0
- Politics
- October 17, 2017
To minimize the chances of another horrific massacre like that in Las Vegas, imaginative risk assessments must be made and acted on by ordinary citizens, organizations that sponsor events, and state and local authorities. The most ineffective, irrelevant reaction would be for Congress to enact yet more gun control legislation. While the federal Gun Control
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Gun Violence Would Plummet If We Just Called off the Drug War 0
- Politics
- October 17, 2017
With the horrific shooting that recently took place in Las Vegas, debates over gun control have been given center stage in our media and politics once again. And while every pundit seems to have their own surefire way of combatting gun violence, they all gloss over the elephant in the room. Which is, although mass
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Does Morality Depend on Religion?0
- Culture
- October 17, 2017
One of the signature issues defining today’s society is the changing attitudes on religion, God, and traditional Christianity. Evidence of this fluctuation was most recently seen in a Pew survey on morality. According to Pew, respondents were asked whether or not belief in God was necessary in order to live a moral life. As the
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Christina Hoff Sommers Interview: On the ‘monster’ Harvey Weinstein, campus kangaroo courts, and reclaiming feminism 0
- Culture
- October 17, 2017
American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers will be speaking at Intellectual Takeout’s gala on Oct. 30. A graduate of NYU who received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brandeis University, Sommers joined AEI as the W.H. Brady fellow in 1997. She had previously taught philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Clark University. A best-selling
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‘Know Thyself’ is a Really Bad Philosophy to Live By 0
- Philosophy
- October 16, 2017
There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help book: ‘Know thyself!’ The phrase has serious philosophical pedigree: by Socrates’ time, it was more or less received wisdom (apparently chiselled into the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) though a
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