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  • 8 Thought-Provoking Quotes from the Author of ‘The Little Prince’

    8 Thought-Provoking Quotes from the Author of ‘The Little Prince’6

    1. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”   2. “The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.”   3. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at

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  • Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools Are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’

    Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools Are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’0

    Dr. Patrick Deneen has taught in some of America’s finest universities. He has been a professor at Princeton, Georgetown, and is now in the political science department at Notre Dame. So what’s his assessment of America’s best students? “My students are know-nothings.” In an extremely important essay posted to Minding the Campus titled “How a

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  • The Declining Importance of the Family

    The Declining Importance of the Family0

    Nowhere is the concern with the problem of community in Western society more intense than with respect to the family. The contemporary family, as countless books, articles, college courses, and marital clinics make plain, has become an obsessive problem. The family inspires a curious dualism of thought. We tend to regard it uneasily as a final manifestation of tribal society,

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  • Can Religion Help Rejuvenate the Black Community?

    Can Religion Help Rejuvenate the Black Community?0

    A while back, Intellectual Takeout wrote a piece on the black on black crime rate in Chicago. Tragically, nearly three-quarters of Chicago murder victims AND the perpetrators are black. Combined with the depressing number of out-of-wedlock births, incarcerations, and other problematic trends, statistics like these can seem insurmountable. But new research highlighted in The Atlantic

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  • Prominent Scientist: “Public Science is Broken”

    Prominent Scientist: “Public Science is Broken”0

    In the wake of the well-publicized Flint, MI, water crisis, a prominent scientist who had worked on such matters before has gone so far as to claim that “public science is broken.” In painful detail, Prof. Marc Edwards of Virginia Teach describes the unconscionable oversights that led to the crisis—namely, state scientists ignoring the warning

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  • Here’s the Best Predictor of Support for Donald Trump

    Here’s the Best Predictor of Support for Donald Trump0

    What’s the best predictor of those likely to support Donald Trump? According to this Vox piece by political-science researcher Matthew MacWilliams, it’s not “income, education, or age.” In fact, the only “statistically significant” predictors of support for Trump were “[a]uthoritarianism and a hybrid variable that links authoritarianism with a personal fear of terrorism…” That’s an

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