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A New Year’s Feud In the Land of MAGA 0
- Culture
- December 26, 2019
Dear Uncle Dan, I hope you are well and still making friends. I’m sorry to hear the parole board turned you down, but there’s always next time. While shopping for Christmas, I ran into your ex, and Vera’s crude remarks tell me communication with her is a no-go. (She’s still bitter about your entanglement
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Why Greta Thunberg Should Be Time’s ‘Person of the Year’0
- Politics
- December 26, 2019
Time Magazine has announced that this year’s Person of the Year award will go to the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. The Swedish school-girl-turned-eco-activist has become the poster-girl of the climate change-turned-emergency worldwide. The choice was not surprising, given the media adulation for the girl who has traveled the globe with a minimal carbon footprint. Time has long abandoned
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The Confused Logic of Christianity Today’s Pro-Impeachment Editorial 0
- Politics
- December 26, 2019
Christianity Today‘s recent editorial calling for Trump’s impeachment has caused quite a buzz in the national news. But the editorial, which takes on Trump on the grounds that he is “morally confused,” is itself morally – and logically – confused. There are two separate issues in the prominent evangelical magazine’s editorial which the editors hopelessly
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Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 2019 0
- Culture
- December 26, 2019
San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show. As of Monday afternoon, the city’s Department of Public Works responded to 30,136 cases of “human or animal waste” this year, easily topping the 28,353 cases the agency handled in 2018 with a week still to go, according to a
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Gollum and the Spirit of Christmas 0
- Culture
- December 23, 2019
When we think of writers associated with Christmas, Dickens would no doubt come to mind, as, perhaps, would Chesterton. It is unlikely, however, that the name of Tolkien would spring to mind. In Tolkien’s works, such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, set in Middle-earth, there is no place for Christmas for the
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Intellectual Takeout’s Five Favorite Christmas Movies 0
- Culture
- December 23, 2019
The staff at Intellectual Takeout and the Charlemagne Institute participated in a highly non-scientific poll to crown our favorite Christmas movies as we prepare for Christ’s coming this Advent. More than a dozen movies were listed in our staff’s top three picks for movies to get cozy with during Christmastime, but five stood aloft from
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