
If the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is replaced this year, the Supreme Court will become something the country has not seen since the justices became a dominant force in American cultural life after World War II: a decidedly conservative court. A court with a 6-3 conservative majority would be a dramatic shift from the
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A friend of mine owns a convenience store in suburban Philadelphia. Refusing to wear a mask, he allows his customers to decide whether or not they want to do the same. Recently, a woman entered his store claiming to be from the health department. She demanded that everyone wear a mask, that he and his
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A reader of Intellectual Takeout, bookbinder and Tennessean Ed Stansell, recently shared these thoughts in an email: I was recently joking with a friend about his efforts not paying off. I asked him why he was having difficulties considering white privilege. His reply was ‘I’m afraid my privilege doesn’t match my whiteness.’ You may have had
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While millennials have been widely hailed as selfish, entitled, unreliable and snowflake-like to say the least (Time magazine once labelled them the “me me me generation”), it turns out they just might be the next generation to want to stay in a job for life and store money under the mattress for a rainy day
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“Burn it all down.” “Civility is dead.” That is how leading political voices have been responding to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at age 87 since it was announced on Friday. Others have voiced concern that America’s social fabric – already frayed by the presidential election, the pandemic, the lockdowns, and the riots – may
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News sources on the political Left, like The New York Times, claim that climate change is responsible for the fires in the West. Those on the Right, like The Epoch Times, say arsonists lit the matches that set off the tinderboxes left by decades of mistaken environmentalist policies, like bans on commercial logging. The media
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