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    • Character Education: Should More Schools Be Providing It?

      Character Education: Should More Schools Be Providing It?0

      • August 24, 2015

      A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece which raised the idea of separating sports from school. Many of you agreed that uncoupling the two would be beneficial in boosting academic performance. According to a new poll from Education Next, Intellectual Takeout’s readers are not alone in wanting to see less emphasis on sports in

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    • Should We Switch New Year’s Day Back to September 1?

      Should We Switch New Year’s Day Back to September 1?0

      • August 24, 2015

      Let’s face it: January 1 is a lame day for celebrating the New Year. In our Northern hemisphere the weather is cold, and promises to get colder, and many people are still worn out after the celebrating Christmas for the past month. And with changes in the college football playoff system, sports enthusiasts are now

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    • 8 Frightening Characteristics of Propaganda

      8 Frightening Characteristics of Propaganda2

      • August 21, 2015

      Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965) has been called “a far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell.” In it, the French philosopher and sociologist dispels some of the popular notions about propaganda and exposes how it really operates in the modern world. In the first chapter

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    • Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful

      Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful0

      • August 21, 2015

      Last year, prompted by Louis C.K.’s bit on the Conan O’Brien show, Morgan Housel at the Motley Fool put together a list titled “50 Reasons We’re Living Through the Greatest Period in World History.” Below are his first 10 reasons: 1. U.S. life expectancy at birth was 39 years in 1800, 49 years in 1900, 68 years

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    • Augustine: There’s No Such Thing as a Harmless Lie

      Augustine: There’s No Such Thing as a Harmless Lie0

      Based on a variety of discussions on Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook page about extramarital affairs, the consensus seemed to be that affairs are still considered disgraceful moral behavior (vs. other behaviors that have grown more acceptable over time) because they involve a breach of trust. Many argue that we live in a decadent society, but apparently, that society

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    • Real Justice

      Real Justice0

      • August 20, 2015

      For most of the history of the West, justice has been defined as, “To give each his due.” Unfortunately, we have lost that understanding along the way. In its simplest form, to act with justice is to judge each person as an individual. Such thinking goes very much against modern thinking. We have been taught

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