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  • Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today

    Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today5

    I recently dug up a 1908 curriculum manual in the Minnesota Historical Society archives. It provided instructions on everything from teacher deportment to recommended literature lists for various grades. As a book lover, I was especially interested in the latter! With the exception of a few textbook-like anthologies, the chart below lists the recommended reading material for

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  • Can the Decline of the West Be Stopped?

    Can the Decline of the West Be Stopped?0

    In watching the 2016 campaigns unfold, it’s hard not to be depressed. It feels to many like America and the West are in decline. Demographic and economic struggles, threats from parts of the Muslim world, increasing tensions with China and Russia, and racial tensions weigh heavily upon many Americans today. At the same time, it feels

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  • Oxford Scholar: A Remedy for the Decline of Knowledge

    Oxford Scholar: A Remedy for the Decline of Knowledge0

    When I was 9, I somehow ended up in a grade school musical entitled Tracers of Lost Parts of Speech. The play used a mild mystery format peppered with songs to teach young children about nouns, adverbs, prepositions, and their many other blood relatives. While I enjoyed being in the play, my 4th grade friends

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  • James Madison on the Separation of Church and State

    James Madison on the Separation of Church and State1

    It’s not unusual to witness discussions on the topic of whether or not the United States was founded “as a Christian nation.” (Or, worded slightly differently, whether or not America had a Christian founding.) The answer to this question depends largely on semantics. On one hand, the Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian and built a

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  • Is Western Civilization ‘Superior’?

    Is Western Civilization ‘Superior’?3

    In many posts, we at Intellectual Takeout have argued that people in the West should know the Western tradition. We say this not only because we believe that Western civilization has made many great contributions to the world that should be appreciated, but also because we believe a knowledge of one’s past is crucial to

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  • When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide

    When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide0

    What happens when religious freedom affronts feminist sensibility? The question came to the fore earlier this month when female teachers at a high school in Germany boycotted the school’s graduation ceremony in protest at the refusal of a male Muslim student to shake hands with a female teacher on the grounds of modesty. Although the

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