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American Students Can’t Write… Because Schools Never Taught Them How1
- October 13, 2015
I had a rude awakening during peer review week in my College Comp II course: writing was a struggle for my classmates. At the time, I was in tears as I read through their papers because the editing work ahead of me was so daunting! In retrospect, I should have been crying more over the
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Faith is Inescapable0
- October 13, 2015
We get a lot of harsh critiques of religion from commenters on our Intellectual Takeout Facebook page. Present in many of these critiques is the idea that faith is opposed to reason. In this piece, I don’t wish to argue about the merits of our commenters’ opposition to religion. Many (not all) identify some real
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Did Playboy Rediscover Mystery?0
- October 13, 2015
Let’s be honest, a good deal of the clothes women are wearing these days don’t leave much to the imagination. Naturally, they attract the attention of men – that’s the intention, right? – but you do wonder if it’s all become a bit boring. As Playboy announces that it will no longer be publishing nude
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Are We Inching Toward World War III?1
- Politics
- October 13, 2015
A couple of weeks ago, we posted about a Harvard professor’s thesis that the U.S. could likely be at war with China in the next decade. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan wonders if the same might be true of the U.S. and Russia. His provocatively-titled piece in Slate last week pointed out that “The
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George Washington’s Rules of Civility in the Age of Internet0
- October 13, 2015
Ever read George Washington’s Rules of Civility? If so, it’s unlikely you’ve read more than a handful before you realize that you’ve repeatedly broken one or more at some point in time. It’s easy to laugh at the manners of the past and dismiss them as ridiculously stiff and formal. But would we experience more
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Columbus was Awesome0
- History
- October 12, 2015
Yes, it’s in vogue to forsake our Western heritage, to see dead, white men as evil barbarians. But let’s be honest, the reason they’ve been celebrated is because what they did, despite their sins, was incredible. Columbus is certainly one of those men. In an age when many teenage Americans are too terrified to even
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