Sitemap - 2023 - The Take (by Jon Miltimore)
A Philosopher's One-Sentence Advice for Living a Healthy Spiritual Life
Leo Tolstoy's Philosophy, in His Own Words
Can America Survive Without Individualism?
Ford's Big Bet on EVs Is Starting to Look Like a Disaster
SBF Told Cleaning Lady to 'Shut the F*ck Up' After She Greeted Him in His Office
6 Things I Never Knew about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
The Meaning of the Christmas Truce of 1914
How the Federal Government Poisoned Americans During Prohibition, Killing Thousands
The Anti-Democratic Attack on Trump, Explained
Even the CIA Now Admits There Was a 'Cover-Up' Following the JFK Assassination
The Riddle of Steel, Explained
80% of Democrats support price controls to fight inflation, new CBS poll finds
The (Economic) Story Behind ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’
6 Books That Will Rewire Your Brain (in a Good Way)
Why Elon Musk Was 100% Right to Allow Alex Jones to Return to Twitter (X)
Charlie Munger’s Best Advice for Living—in His Own Words
Economists Are Roasting Biden’s ‘Incoherent’ Inflation Tweet—and for Good Reason
Argentina’s Inflation, Explained (in One Chart)
The NeverEnding Story Is Turning 40—and I Finally Figured Out What the Nothing Is
The Walls Are Closing in on Anthony Fauci
The FDR Pearl Harbor Question That People Are Afraid to Ask
The Greatest Antiwar Song Ever Written
A New AI Hit Reveals Just How Far Pop Music Has Fallen
What Americans can learn from Javier Milei’s victory — and Argentina’s ruinous economy
Why Black Friday Is Called Black Friday
What Ten Lepers in the Book of Luke Can Teach Us about Gratitude
Failing Government Schools and Fauci's Flip Flop
Fauci's Pivot on Vaccine Mandates
Fact-Checkers Are Gaslighting You on the Feds’ Vehicle ‘Kill Switch’ Mandate
2024 Federal Tax Brackets Are Out. Find Out Which Bracket You’re In—and Why Tax Rates Are So High
Yes, Biden's Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Is as Dystopian as It Sounds
When Cheers Exposed the Sheer Stupidity of American Politics
Paw Patrol 2 Contains a Lesson Many Americans Desperately Need to Hear
Why Ghostbusters Might Be the Most Libertarian Movie of the '80s
The Most Important Line in 'The NeverEnding Story'
The 4 Funniest Remixed YouTube Videos in History (Guaranteed to Make You Laugh)
Chicago’s Solution to Its Failing School System: Stop Grading Schools on Performance
Farmer's Case Heads to Supreme Court—After Texas Refuses to Compensate Him for Property It Destroyed
9 Literary Masterpieces the Church Banned
Proof That Venezuela's Economic Collapse Was Caused by Socialism
Justin Trudeau Is Lying about Inflation
Author on the 'Single Biggest Determiner' of Being a Good Mother
A Student With a 1590 SAT Score Was Rejected by 16 Colleges—Because He’s Asian
Covid Vaccines Are Getting (WAY) More Expensive. Here's Why
Can Taylor Swift Upend Hollywood? (and more)
Abraham Lincoln’s Suicide Note
The Sick Punishment for Parricide in Ancient Rome...and Why It Matters
The Martin Scorsese Movie Disney and China Don’t Want You to See
Why a Third of Americans Making $150k a Year Are 'Living Paycheck to Paycheck'
It's Official: Dr. Fauci Owes Rand Paul a Big Apology
How America’s Recycling Program Failed—and Scarred the Environment
The WikiLeaks Video That Made Julian Assange a Marked Man
Joe Biden Identified as 'Political Figure 1' in Draft Warrant
3 Questions for Fauci on His Secret Visit to CIA Headquarters
13 Thoughts on Culture and Decline From Jacques Barzun
The Most Chilling Paragraph I've Read in Years
The Hidden Message of the Scream Movies
George Orwell on What Separates Patriotism and Nationalism
16 Behavioral Signs of Narcissism
Russell Brand’s YouTube Demonetization Shows How the West's Version of Social Credit Will Work
Cheesecake Factory’s Unfortunate Lesson on Scarcity and Prices
'Surreally Good': The Economic Dishonesty of Paul Krugman
Get Ready to Kiss Your Credit Card Rewards Goodbye
Stephen King's Favorite Stephen King Movies (and the One He Hated)
How AI Helped Me Debunk a Fake Sigmund Freud Quote in a Nanosecond
Child Speech Issues Highest Level 'Ever Recorded' in UK
The U.S. Has the Fattest Poor People in the World. Why?
Novak Djokovic’s Kobe Bryant Tribute a Reminder That ‘Mamba Mentality’ Is about More Than Sports
Price Controls Have Been Failing for 4,000 Years—but Humans Still Won't Learn
The CIA Attempted to Bribe Analysts to Bury Lab Leak Findings, Agency Whistleblower Says
Why I'll Never Own a Cat (and Suggest You Don't Either)
What George Will Gets Wrong about Cocaine Legalization
The Justice Department Lawsuit Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Outrageous
Watch Milton Friedman Reveal the Humbling Truth of “I, Pencil” in Just 2 Minutes
Germany’s Student Right in the 1920s Was a Lot Like Today’s Student Left
How 'Demolition Man' Perfectly Predicted 2023
5 Charts That Explain the Student Debt Mess
C.S. Lewis's Warning to Christians Who See Sexual Sin as 'the Supreme Vice'
Colorado School Flunks History, Suspends Student Over ‘Racist’ Gadsden Flag Patch on Backpack
Gandhi Saw the True Nature of the State
The 14 Early Warning Signs of Fascism
The Feds likely have a case file on Oliver Anthony already, Edward Snowden Says
Why the Hippocratic Oath Forbade Abortion—and Our Modern Society Does Not
Why the FBI Opened a Case File on John Denver in the 1970s
Wikipedia Declares Inflation a 'Right Wing Talking Point' on Page of Oliver Anthony's Hit Song
One US State Still Prohibits Americans From Pumping Their Own Gas. Here's Why
J.R.R. Tolkien on Love and Sex
How This Teacher Went from Making $60k a Year to $336k—and Was Able to Quit His Job
On AOC’s Call to Liberate Sunscreen
The Government’s Orwellian Effort to Censor Speech They Knew Was True
12 Truth-Bombs Courtesy of Milton Friedman
Can You Recognize America’s First Political Cartoon?
Sweeping Government Corruption Highlights an Age-Old Problem
Do Animals Go to Heaven? C.S. Lewis’s Answer Might Surprise You
Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?
No, Taylor Swift and Beyonce Are Not Responsible for Inflation
The Dystopias of Orwell and Huxley Had One Big Thing in Common
A Psychology Study from the 1970s Suggests an Uncomfortable Truth about Morality
How J.R.R. Tolkien Responded to News of the Atomic Bomb
My Response to Reason's RFK Jr. Takedown
The US Lost Its AAA Credit Rating—and the White House Is Taking No Responsibility
The Lesson of Pertinax, Who Was Assassinated While Trying to Fix Rome's Economic Mess
Carl Sagan's Prophetic Warning about 'Charlatans' in Government Running Our Lives
Animal Testing Labs in China Are STILL Receiving US Tax Dollars
It Takes This Many Days to Form a Habit
Scientists Call for Full Retraction of Key Paper on Covid Origins
Why I Won’t Take My 12-Year-Old Daughter to See Barbie
It's a Historical Fact That Minimum Wage Laws Are Rooted in Racism
What Game of Thrones Teaches about Taxes and Out-of-Control Government Spending
10 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes That Reveal the Beauty of His Soul
The Genesis of the Term 'Snowflake'
15 of Mark Twain’s Sassiest Quotable Quips (Sourced)
7 of Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Books From His Fiction Reading
‘Puss in Boots' Reveals the Key to Human Happiness (No, I'm Not Kidding)
Superman Director on How the Man of Steel Made Him Rethink His Politics
The US Invasion of Mexico That Didn’t Happen—and the Danger of Spreading Liberty by the Sword
Aldous Huxley's Letter to George Orwell
What Socrates Can Teach Marxists about Justice
Examining the Jobs Numbers of ‘Bidenomics’
The US Government Sent Millions of Grant Dollars to Alleged COVID ‘Patient Zero,’ Documents Show
Socialists Are Actually (Way) More Materialistic Than Capitalists
Milan Kundera's Greatest Lesson
Banning Gas-Powered Cars Is Madness
‘Office Space' Hilariously Demonstrates How Resentment Can Take Over Your Life
Why Compulsory Schooling Laws Need to Go
Why the New Super Mario Bros. Movie Got Labeled 'Anti-Woke'
The Ancient Greek Play That Mercilessly (and Hilariously) Mocked Socialism and Democracy
7 Things This Entrepreneur Did to Go From Door Man to Running a $3 Billion Hotel Empire
New Study Details How Minimum Wage Laws Fuel Homelessness
The Myth That Benjamin Franklin Was an Atheist
Gavin Newsom's New 'Gas Price-Gouging Law' Flunks Basic Econ
5 Forgotten Signers of the Declaration of Independence
George Washington Bought 47 Gallons of Beer for Election Day in 1758
Why So Many Academics Can’t Understand American Patriotism
Dying Words From 7 Founding Fathers
The 7 Steps Lenin Used to Create a Totalitarian 'Workers Paradise'
JFK Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Dying Regret
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
Why Our World Suddenly Looks Like “1984”
Tesla Was Reinstated to S&P ESG Index, But Still Trails Tobacco Companies
'Something Terrible Has Happened': Carl Sagan Saw US Schools Were Ruining Kids Decades Ago
The US Health Secretary 6 Times Refused to Answer if ‘Forcing 2-Year-Olds to Wear Masks Saved Lives’
How Diocletian’s Persecution of Christians Began
Socialist Venezuela Was an ‘Economic Miracle’ to Leftists Before It Became 'Not Real Socialism'
A Shocking Fact about Bobby Kennedy's Assassination You Probably Don't Know
10 'Subversive' Jokes That Could’ve Landed You in an East German Prison
A CIA Chief's Chilling Dying Words and the JFK Assassination
California's Proposed Law to Prevent Employees From Confronting Shoplifters Would Be a Disaster
Why Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction
Even Karl Marx Opposed 'Free' College
Why the Slow Death of Cable News Is a Story Worth Celebrating
6 Financial Tips I’d Give My 18-Year-Old Self
Biden’s Pick to lead CDC Has Already Disqualified Herself
John Cleese's Theory on Why so Many People Want to Control Other People’s Behavior
8 Historic Cases That Show the FBI and CIA Have Been Out of Control Long Before Trump Indictment
The Historian Who Correctly Predicted What the Internet Would Do to Humanity
French President Charles de Gaulle’s Theory on the JFK Assassination
Bud Light’s Sales Implosion, Explained
The Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Won D-Day for the Allies
The Real Reason State Farm Won’t Sell Home Insurance in California Anymore
C.S. Lewis's Warning on Social Justice
The ESG Empire Strikes Back Following Bud Light Debacle
Dostoyevsky’s Powerful Prophesy on the Rise of Socialism
The Moral Experiment That Shows Why Elizabeth Holmes Was Able to Lie so Easily and Convincingly
The 'My Dinner With Andre' Scene That Explores Our Desire to Escape the Modern World
Why Rome Once Had 5 Emperors in a Single Year
How Anne Sullivan Achieved Her Miracle with Helen Keller
Hitler's Biggest Regret, 'The Big Chill,' and the Infinite Human Capacity to Rationalize Evil
7 Things You Might Not Know about 'The Road to Serfdom'
How 'First Blood' Foreshadowed America’s Policing Problem
Harry Truman's Salvo Against the CIA Following JFK Assassination
Bud Light's Collapse in Beer Sales in One Chart
Why Hamlet Disappeared From the Stage in the Soviet Union for Years
When Justin Trudeau Said He Admired China’s 'Basic Dictatorship'
Stephen King's Scariest Short Story
Why Legacy Media Won’t Cover the CIA’s Election Meddling
Why Miller Lite Jumped on the Woke Bandwagon With Bud Light
The FBI (Quietly) Throws Comey, McCabe Under the Bus Following Durham Report Release
How the Media Became the Pentagon’s Plumbers
Why Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights—but Communist Leaders Didn't
How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Destitute Mom Gave Her Son an Amazing Education
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Is Awesome—and Teaches an Important Lesson on Utopianism
New IRS Data Show America’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Moment Is Already Here
The 1970s Movie That Revealed the True Terror of a Deep State
Why Are Banks Collapsing? A New Federal Reserve Report Holds a Clue
Is the New Super Mario Bros. Movie Really Anti-Woke? No and Yes
Why We Need More Kyrsten Sinemas and Fewer AOCs
What Game of Thrones Teaches Us about Wealth Creation
A Libertarian Approach to Gun Control—That Will Actually Reduce Gun Deaths
America (Finally) Admitted Recycling Doesn't Work
Is Mick Jagger a Closet Libertarian?
Signs You Might Be Living During a Revolution
Why Forcing People to Drive EVs Won't Save the Environment
Why Ayn Rand Loved 'Charlie's Angels'
New Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer Teases a Great Lesson on Utopianism
German Author on Capitalism: 'It’s Under Attack Almost Everywhere'
What Dr. Ian Malcolm Can Teach You about Earth Day
The Secret to Learning Einstein Shared With His Son
Why Sweden's Vindication on Lockdowns Needs to Be Celebrated
Ayn Rand Thought American Men Didn’t Show Their Feelings Enough. Here’s Why She Was Wrong
Andrew Jackson's Dying Mother Gave Him This Advice on How to Be a Man
New Studies Show Two Ways Masks Failed During the Pandemic
Talk’s 'Run Away to Mars' and the Importance of Sharing Good Things
Steve Jobs Hated Pornography—but Couldn't Explain Why
Gumball's SJW Battle (Hilariously) Revealed the Hollowness of Social Justice ‘Tolerance’
G.K. Chesterton's Assessment of Oscar Wilde
7 Reasons to Oppose 'Red Flag' Guns Laws
The CIA's Twisted Plot to Assassinate Patrice Lumumba—by Poisoning His Toiletries
3 Common Habits of Mentally Weak People
What Star Trek Can Teach 21st Century Americans about Microaggressions
The Bob Dylan Song That Can Guide a Generation Lost in Protest
Mass Shootings Are on the Rise in the US. Why?
Aldous Huxley Predicted Today's Schooling Trends in 'Brave New World'
Americans Must Stop Fomenting Group Hatred After Every Mass Shooting
Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals
Alexander Hamilton Predicted Exactly How the Colonies Would Win the American Revolution
The Effort to Ban Skittles Is Part of a Larger Political Battle
Jordan Peterson's Most Important Rule for Life
Is ‘Wokeism’ to Blame for Silicon Valley Bank’s Demise? No and Yes
Neil Postman’s Warning to Americans on Barbarism
The Man Who Prophesied the Horror of WWI With Uncanny Accuracy
J.R.R. Tolkien Said This Simone de Beauvoir Quote Is the 'Key Spring' of Lord of the Rings
Why 'The Ten Commandments' Is Still One of the Best Movies Ever Made
The Philosopher Who Explained Spontaneous Order 2k Years Before Adam Smith
Why An Ancient Ruler Confiscated All the Swords in Japan—Except For the Samurais'
7 Life Lessons from Marcus Aurelius
14 Thoughtful J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes on Life, Death, and War
The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining
Why Liberals Can’t Understand Conservatives (and Vice Versa)
Why Biden Broke His Promise to Prohibit New Oil Permits on Federal Land
The 11 Biggest Lies of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Huxley’s Dark Prophecy on Humanity's Future
What Americans Should NOT Do in the 'National Divorce' Debate
Why Taylor Lorenz Should Read This North Korean Defector's Best-Selling Book
Jordan Peterson Decorated His Home With Soviet Propaganda Art For Years. Here's Why
No, Stalin's Legacy Was Not 'Mixed'
How DeSantis Can Use the Media Frenzy Over Florida's Ridiculous 'Blogger Bill' to His Advantage
Jeffrey Sachs: Of Course the US Blew Up Nord Stream 2
The Danger of Secret Governance
How Jon Stewart Destroyed the State's Narrative That the Lab Leak Theory Was a Crackpot Idea
'WTF Happened in 1971'? Edward Snowden and Jack Dorsey Want to Know
Were We All Wrong About the Causes of Drug Addiction?
Did the US Government Blow Up the Nord Stream Pipelines?
'That’s Not a Free Country': Woody Harrelson Slams Covid Mandates in NYT Interview
Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling on the Most Dangerous Kind of Censorship
How the Founding Fathers Viewed Human Nature
The Harry Potter Villain That Is Even Worse Than Voldemort
19 Quotes From Famous Historic Figures That Are Sure to Make You Uncomfortable
NYT: 'The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?'
Could Exorcism Actually Be Real?
5 Causes of the Civil War (Besides Slavery)
'It Was Like a Maoist Struggle Session': NYT Staff Writer on Freakout Over Tom Cotton Op-Ed
9 Books the Catholic Church Banned That Were Literary Masterpieces
The Latest Twitter Files Dump Shows How Mainstream Media Is Failing Us
Carl Sagan’s Prophecy about America’s Future Was Spot On
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Strange Alternate Ending to ‘The Lord of the Rings’
Why Did a Future CIA Director Bury Evidence of the Holocaust During WWII?
The Deadliest School Attack in US History
Al Gore’s 2009 Warning That the North Polar Ice Cap Would Likely Be 'Ice-Free Within 5 to 7 years'
Meet 'the Mother of the American Valentine'
G.K. Chesterton Captured the Paradox of the New Left in a Single Literary Passage
Oscar Wilde: Minding Your Own Business Is the Opposite of Selfishness
The Wild Story of How Vladimir Putin Joined the KGB
The 3 Traits Warren Buffett Says He Looks for in an Employee
Why Super Bowl Halftime Performers Get Paid $0 to Play
Meet the Real-Life James Bond Who Ran Assassination Teams in the US During World War II
Idi Amin's Response When Told Uganda Was Out of Money
'It Breaks My Heart': Canadian Farmer Forced to Dump 30,000 Liters of Milk as Dairy Prices Surge
Altruists Share This One Common Trait, a Georgetown Psychologist's Research Suggests
3 Ways to Fix Policing in America Following Tyre Nichols’ Senseless Death
Yes, Americans Really Are Getting (Much) Fatter. Here's the Proof
Why Gerry Rafferty’s Lyrics in ‘Baker Street’ Are Worth Paying Attention to
3 Secrets to Happiness, According to an 80-year Harvard Study
The Frightening Reason Most Men Cheat
Why Ray Bradbury Didn't Think Writers Should Go to College
‘Paw Patrol’ Might Be the Most Libertarian Kids Movie Ever
Meet the Socialist I'll Be Debating Next Month at Texas Tech University
Lockdown Queen Jacinda Ardern Departs With a Nixon-Like Approval Rating
The Dangerous Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler
Why Slow Drivers Should Get the **ck Out of the Left Lane
The NYT Explains Why the Minimum Wage Should Be $0.00
6 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Books Worth Reading
Hitler's Frightening Boast about His 'Great Achievement'
Yes, 'I've Never Been To Me' Is One of the Best Songs Ever
Cardi B Is Right to Be P*ssed about Inflation
How Seinfeld Revealed the Creepy Authoritarianism of Aggressive Do-Gooders
Why Harvey Keitel Got Fired by Stanley Kubrick While Filming 'Eyes Wide Shut'
What Dr. King Taught Us about Nonviolence
Buttigieg’s Blunders Show the Danger in Putting Politicians in Charge of Key Infrastructure
Want a Viking Funeral? It's Legal in One US State
Sin City and Solzhenitsyn Agreed: Power Comes From Lies
Nancy Pelosi’s Other Legacy: A Mountain of Debt for Our Children
Communism Delivered the Worst Car in History: The Trabant
15 Highly-Effective Strategies for Mass Manipulation
1984: 3 Real-Life Inspirations for George Orwell’s Dystopian Masterpiece
Watch a Young Paul Ehrlich Propose Jailing Americans Who Have "Too Many" Children
What Kant Would Say to the Stripper Going Viral After Saying 'It Was Fun' Breaking Men
Stephen King's 11 Best Writing Tips
60 Minutes Guest Supported Forced Sterilization for Indians
Why Has the US Been at War Almost My Entire Adult Life? (I am 43.)
How the Founding Fathers Proposed Helping the Poor
What Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Mother Thought of Germany's Public Schools—and What She Did About It