By Jeff Minick “Language matters. Let’s start with some quotes from one of the masters of the English language: George Orwell. “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity …
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The Epidemic of Woke Politicians | Intellectual Takeout
By Martin Cothran When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when all you’ve got is politics (for an ideologue, everything is political), everything looks like it is resolvable by a law. Hence the current …
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U.S. “Non-Profit” Hospitals and CEOs Raking in Big Bucks | Intellectual Takeout
We found that the assets, investments, and bank accounts at these charitable hospitals increased by $38.9 billion last year – from $164.1 billion to $203.2 billion. That’s 23.6 percent growth, year-over-year, in net assets. Even deducting for the $5.2 billion …
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How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone? | Intellectual Takeout
“The proliferation of digital technology has created an interesting paradox: devices that were designed to connect people have coincided with increasing rates of isolation, with nearly half of Americans reporting feelings of loneliness. Gen Z, the generation that has grown up …
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The Problem With Defining Certain Speech and Crimes as ‘Hate’ | Intellectual Takeout
If you hurt someone at random: bad. If you hurt someone because of who you thought they were: worse. As a result we are treated to reports of awful behavior and instructed to be particularly aghast if it is a …
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Pascal on Why Living in the Present Is So Difficult (Yet so Important) | Intellectual Takeout
Welcome to another edition of Friday’s Philosophical Foray beyond Healthcare! In this Friday’s installment, we ponder Blaise Pascal’s explorations regarding the trappings of Time. …Pascal says that man has an intimation of perfect happiness deep in his soul but is …
