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If you’ve followed Intellectual Takeout for any length of time, you’ll know that Fatherhood is a regular topic. You’ll also probably recognize that it’s not a popular topic in the culture. The Ivory Tower declares patriarchy as one of the great sins of the West. Hollywood and Madison Ave. do their parts to mock and
READ MOREIn its third season, the British science fiction TV series Black Mirror featured an episode called “Nosedive.” The episode, which was co-written by The Office actress Rashida Jones and starred Bryce Howard, depicted a society of smiling people who walked around with holographic bubbles that contained their “rating.” These ratings were based on how people were
READ MOREOver the weekend, columnist Christine Emba commented on an interesting typo from The Wall Street Journal. As Emba explains, the WSJ quoted Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the prophet Moses carried water from the country Iraq, rather than a regular rock, thus convoluting the famous miracle from Israel’s days in the wilderness. The mistake naturally
READ MORETenure used to provide faculty members with solid protection against all but criminal behavior. But now it is proving no match for weak excuses for firing professors who administrators want to be rid of. Marquette University’s termination of political science Professor John McAdams for speaking his mind about a younger faculty colleague’s handling of a
READ MOREFormer Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens penned an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday, advising that gun control activists at recent demonstrations have not gone far enough in their demands for more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. According to Stevens, it isn’t enough to deny millions of young
READ MOREIt seems that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro has finally found the way to bring the country out of the unprecedented economic crisis Venezuela is immersed in since 2012. The ineffable leader of the Bolivarian Revolution has recently announced the launching of a new currency, the so-called Sovereign Bolivar, which will replace the bolivar as the
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