When I was a child, growing up behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin, I had a neighbor friend who would get “care packages” from her aunt on the West side of the city. She would always receive such beautiful toys,...
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Dear Ask the Professor, Was the New Deal successful in ending the Great Depression? Sounds like a simple question - but the results of searching turn up polar opposite opinions - and...
Posted by: on September 15, 2011
Dear Ask the Professor,
Students at our daughter's school were invited to the White Privilege Conference. I would argue that this is a very divisive...
Posted by: Devin Foley on April 20, 2011
While Americans enjoy bragging about repeatedly saving the French from the Germans, the truth is that without the French the Americans likely wouldn’t have been able to break away from the British. In...
Posted by: Devin Foley on April 13, 2011
Dear Ask a Professor,
How relevant is pragmatism to the education system today?
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Posted by: Devin Foley on March 14, 2011
At Intellectual Takeout, we believe individuals should read multiple perspectives on various ideas and policy proposals. Additionally, we believe primary documents are critically important to understanding. As is...
Posted by: Devin Foley on February 24, 2011
Looking back on the era of segregation, the idea seems absurd to those of us who have only known a post-race America. Most of us under forty went to school with folks of a wide variety of colors, creeds, religions,...
Posted by: Devin Foley on January 17, 2011
Money is the most important good in an economy; if you mess up your monetary system, you can ruin your entire economy. This is the lesson Foundation for Economic Education President Lawrence Reed puts forth in his...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on September 8, 2010
In This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff look at data going back eight centuries. Their analysis delivers a clear message regarding the recent...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on September 7, 2010
Commenting on our topic page History of Feminism and Feminist Thought, a reader recently complained about the topic’s picture. In her view the image of a woman’s foot clothed in stilettos and...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on August 20, 2010