Culture

Mass Shootings: Fallout From a Culture Where Anything Goes and Nothing Matters 0
- Culture
- August 6, 2019
My editor at Intellectual Takeout, Annie Holmquist, wrote to me the Monday after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio to ask if I might write a column about these horrific murders. She and some of the staff were discussing the shootings and found themselves asking the following questions: Why are young
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Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice 0
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- August 6, 2019
In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don’t put out fires; they create fires to burn books. The totalitarians claim noble goals for book burning. They want to spare citizens unhappiness caused by having to sort through conflicting theories. Censorship Is Control The real aim of censorship, in Bradbury’s dystopia, is to control the
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Breaking Old Habits: Millennials Make the Nun Run 0
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- August 6, 2019
I was taken aback at the headlining article on ESPN this weekend. It wasn’t about kneeling football players. Instead, one might say it was about a kneeling basketball player: Shelly Pennefather. Pennefather, a former All-American player for Villanova, turned down a professional basketball career to join the cloistered convent of the Poor Clares. ESPN captured
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Three Reasons Why Media Coverage May Be Contributing to Mass Shootings 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
If you are like me, you’ve probably followed the media coverage of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton quite closely. These massacres provide brutal reminders of the terrible impact of gun violence. Of course, media outlets constantly have something to say about this sort of crime, whether it be the initial report of
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Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs 0
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- August 5, 2019
California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an increasing pace, are serving customers, as fast-food joints and grocery stores adapt to
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Why Baby Strikes Won’t Save the Planet 0
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- August 5, 2019
If you’re worried about climate change, you shouldn’t have children. Ever. That’s the new argument that many young Americans are buying into. The issue gained prominence in February when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez raised it on Instagram, and it was back in the news earlier this month when pop singer Miley Cyrus suggested she wouldn’t be
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