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  • Candy Carson and the ‘Woke’ Media Project

    Candy Carson and the ‘Woke’ Media Project0

    In 2015 Michelle Malkin wrote a column, praising the wife of distinguished neurosurgeon and later Trump Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson. Malkin appropriately designated her subject as the “anti-Michelle Obama.” Her description encapsulates some of the merits of Candy Carson, who graduated from Yale with a triple major in music, psychology, and pre-med,

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  • I’m the Last One

    I’m the Last One0

    For over a week now, Anders Koskinen, our associate editor and an administrator for our social media channels, has been banned from posting both on Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook page and a personal page. Yesterday, Annie Holmquist was prohibited from posting as well, completely unable to do anything. Here’s the warning Annie received: For some odd reason my

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  • Pizza Shop Guy, Donut Shop Guy, and Little Old Me

    Pizza Shop Guy, Donut Shop Guy, and Little Old Me0

    Eating takeout food frequently is not a good thing to do, experts agree. Fine, I won’t quibble too much with this. But that doesn’t prevent takeout from being an excellent source of research on the culture of work and the staying power of bourgeois values in America. I offer to you, then, Pizza Shop Guy

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  • Beating the Blues With Homegrown Hospitality

    Beating the Blues With Homegrown Hospitality0

    Last week I invited my young neighbors, Becca and Sam, and their two little girls to supper. I prepared lasagna and salad, and Becca and Sam brought wine and freshly baked bread. After supper, the girls entertained themselves with the Lincoln Logs and Play-Mobile sets I keep handy for my grandchildren, and we adults passed

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  • Some Arguments for Guns You Never Hear

    Some Arguments for Guns You Never Hear0

    Two recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado, have once again roused those whose goal is to destroy the Second Amendment. Before the bodies of the slain were buried, before the bereft were given even a day or two for grieving, these politicians and commentators were calling for new restrictions on gun ownership.

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  • Wokeness Is No Laughing Matter

    Wokeness Is No Laughing Matter2

    I remember once hearing someone who dealt with such things point out that there was one particular trait characterizing all cult religions: the lack of a sense of humor, not only with regard to others, but in relation to themselves as well. Cult religions, after all, are usually obsessed with one doctrine, to which all

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