Culture

Need a Digital Detox? Here Are 3 Tips to Get Started.2
- Culture
- January 9, 2024
A couple of weeks ago when my fall semester ended, I broke my informal YouTube fast. After only a few days, I was reminded of why I enjoy leaving it alone. Sites like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter catch the viewer by stimulating a seemingly never-ending desire for more. It’s like the childhood hiding-under-the covers-with-a-flashlight urge
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The Man Saving Childhood Joy 0
- Family, Culture
- January 9, 2024
Kids running around, playing games, staying out till the streetlights come on! That was Charles Brewer’s childhood — and dream. To make it happen in modern-day America, the entrepreneur developed Glenwood Park in Atlanta, a neighborhood that hewed to the tenets of “New Urbanism.” That meant it had “town houses, offices, retail, walkable streets, a
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‘To Have and to Hold’: Marrying Young and Making It Last 2
- Culture, Family, Featured
- January 8, 2024
Kate Z. works in childcare and as a part-time barista in my local coffee shop. She’s the oldest of 10 children, with seven brothers and two sisters. Home-educated during elementary school, Kate then entered Padre Pio Academy here in Front Royal, Virginia, a hybrid school which combines homeschooling with three days a week in the
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My New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies 1
- Culture, Philosophy, Religion
- January 8, 2024
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? I rarely make them, but this year I have. Please do not mistake the title. I did not write “make more enemies,” though to be honest that might not be a bad one for some people. That would be a different essay, however. This is not an essay
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Steamboat Willie and Intellectual Property 1
- Culture, Economics
- January 5, 2024
You’ve likely already seen him freely used across the Internet over the last two days. As of 2024, Steamboat Willie, the cartoon which introduced Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain. This means that Steamboat Willie and its depictions of Mickey Mouse is fair game for any usage (I’d guess Disney likely will still try to
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January 6: An Insurrection by a Government Against Its People 14
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 5, 2024
On January 6, 2021, I attended the Save America March in Washington, D.C. On January 7, Intellectual Takeout published my account of that rally. A friend had obtained VIP tickets for our little band of adults and children, giving us seats about 20 yards from the speaker’s platform. As I mention in the article, the
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