Sitemap - 2024 - The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Reflections on Jimmy Carter, a New Hit Pop Song, and the Return of Leana Wen

Paw Patrol 2 Reminds Us That There's More to Life Than Safety

Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Works of Fiction

The Country Singer Who Took Aim at Welfare 50 Years Before Oliver Anthony

‘Trading Places,’ the Duke Brothers, and the True Roots of Racism

The Christmas Truce of 1914: A Moment of Humanity Amid the Horrors of War

‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’: The Story Behind the Hit 1980s Song

How the U.S. Government's Poison Program During Prohibition Killed Thousands

Why ABC Settled With Donald Trump

The Martin Scorsese Movie Disney and China Don’t Want You to See

The Long March Through the Institutions Is Already Here

Price Controls: 4,000 Years of Failure

Biden’s $8 Billion Gift to Intel

A CIA Chief's Terrifying Dying Words and the JFK Assassination

Why John Cusack Just Blocked Me on X

What the Dystopias of Orwell and Huxley Had in Common

Christina Buttons and the Antidote to America's Mental Health Crisis

Why Gandhi's Philosophy Deserves a Closer Look in the West

The Case For Abolishing the Department of Education—in One Tweet

The FBI Opened a Case File on John Denver in the 1970s. Why?

What 'Bonhoeffer' Gets Wrong (and What It Gets Right)

The Pearl Harbor Question People Are Afraid to Ask

The 'Gender-Affirming Care for Minors' Circus Lands at the Supreme Court

J.R.R. Tolkien on Love, Sex, Marriage, and Monogamy

Bonhoeffer, Debanking, and Deregulatory Lessons from Argentina

The Good Samaritan Parable and an Uncomfortable Truth about Morality

What the Nothing in The NeverEnding Story Really Is

Victim in Bobby Kennedy Assassination to Sirhan Sirhan: 'You Were Not the Gunman Who Shot Robert Kennedy'

Americans Should Realize How Good They've Got It

Sonny Hostin and the Ugly Truth about Slavery

‘Beautiful Things’: Benson Boone, Marcus Aurelius, and the Importance of Gratitude

Government Report: Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Make You an Extremist

The German Poet Who Prophesied the Rise of the Nazi War Machine 100 Years Before Hitler

Why You Still Can't Pump Your Own Gas in New Jersey

Director Richard Donner on How Making Superman Made Him Rethink His Politics

The Holodomor: How Stalin Starved Ukraine

Why I'm Going to 'Bonhoeffer' Tonight

Charles de Gaulle’s Theory on Who Killed JFK

Harry Truman's Salvo Against the CIA Following the JFK Assassination

What 'Cast Away' Teaches Us about Wealth and Economics

Justine Bateman, Canceling Family Members, and Our Urge to Cast Out Political Heretics

Why Executioners Have Been Paid So Well Throughout History

Ulysses S. Grant and the US Invasion of Mexico That Didn’t Happen

Carl Sagan's Final Interview: 'Be Skeptical of Those in Authority'

Dostoyevsky’s Prophesy on the Rise of Socialism

Milan Kundera's Greatest Lesson

Native Americans Voted for Trump By a Stunning Margin

When Silicon Valley Exposed Our Love for False Empathy: 'Poop Fare'

15 of Mark Twain’s Sassiest Quotes

10 'Subversive' Jokes That Could’ve Landed You in Prison in East Germany

‘Office Space' Hilariously Demonstrated How Resentment Takes Over Your Life

How Gen X Delivered the Election to Donald Trump

How China Got Rich

Why the Kids Should Be in School Today—Even Though Trump Won

5 Things to Watch on Election Night (Besides Trump vs. Harris)

'Why I Changed My Mind About Volunteering': A Response

Jonah Goldberg's 'Firing Squad' Remark, the 2024 Election, and Our Descent Into Orwellianism

‘Listen to the Science’: A 75-Year-Old Warning About the Phrase

A Shocking Fact about Bobby Kennedy's Assassination You Probably Don't Know

Scream's Hidden Message: Victimhood is Deadly

Stephen King's 'Creepiest' Short Story

Andrew Sullivan Calls on Rachel Levine to Resign Over Trans Children Research Coverup

What Socrates Can Teach Marxists about Justice

How Diocletian’s Persecution of Christians Began

How ‘Puss in Boots' Reveals the Key to Human Happiness (Seriously)

How the Star of 'Wicked' Just Sabotaged Her Own Movie

Why Tim Walz Received an 'F' in Cato's Fiscal Report Card, Ranking Dead Last of 50 Governors

'Something Terrible Has Happened': Carl Sagan Saw What US Schools Were Doing to Children Decades Ago

A Peek Behind the Curtain at CBS Reveals Journalism in a Death Spiral

15 Highly-Effective Strategies for Mass Manipulation

How Experts Created a Peanut Allergy Epidemic

George Orwell and the Freedom to Say 2+2 = 4

Daughter of Stanley Kubrick Responds to Trump 'Full Metal Jacket' Political Ad: 'I Believe My Father Would Approve'

California Lawmakers Admit Their Plastic Bag Ban Backfired

The Ancient Greek Play That Hilariously Mocked Collectivism and Democracy

Why the Term 'Porn Star' Should Go

Norway’s Wealth Tax Is Backfiring. Are Americans Paying Attention?

The War Film That Turned Dietrich Bonhoeffer Away From Nationalism

Tim Walz ‘Crowded Theater’ Argument Is Misinformation

I Live in Minnesota. Let Me Tell You about Tim Walz's COVID Snitch Line

'First Blood,' Individual Rights, and the Subversion of the Law

‘Am I a Racist?’ Is Brilliant. More Importantly, It's Funny

The Historian Who Foresaw the Downside of the Internet

A Simple Reason to Oppose the Death Penalty

Hitler, 'The Big Chill,' and the Human Capacity to Rationalize Evil

'Am I a Racist?', My Conversation With a Kamala Harris Supporter, and a Solution to the Organ Shortage

Why Ford’s Retreat From the EV Market Is Good for Everyone

Why Even Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights—but Communist Leaders Do Not

The Slow Death of Cable News, Explained

Why Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction

China referred to UN for torture of freedom fighter Jimmy Lai

Taylor Swift, Brittany Mahomes, and Why Putting Friendship Before Politics Is Important

The New 'Bonhoeffer' Movie Looks Absolutely Amazing

How Anne Sullivan Achieved Her Miracle with Helen Keller

Taylor Swift, Jimmy Lai, and Another Trump Assassination: Maintaining Sanity in an Increasingly Insane World

7 Surprising Facts about 'The Road to Serfdom'

Why Trotsky Believed It Was Moral to Murder the Tsar's Children

John Cleese's Theory on Why so Many People Want to Control Other People’s Behavior

9 Books the Catholic Church Banned That Were Literary Masterpieces

Elon Musk Is Battling Literal Communists in Brazil for Free Speech

Why Hamlet Disappeared From the Stage in the USSR for Years

Pavel Durov, Murthy v. Missouri, and the Global Effort to Control Speech

Three Days of the Condor Revealed the Real Terror of a 'Deep State'

The Quiet Libertarianism of Mick Jagger

Was Pavel Durov Arrested at the Behest of the US Government?

The 'My Dinner With Andre' Scene That Explores the Terror of Our Modern World

The Power, Beauty, and Majesty of Ennio Morricone’s Music

3 Common Habits of Mentally Weak People

What Karl Marx Thought about 'Free' College

What Dr. Ian Malcolm Can Teach You about Environmental Alarmism

The Roman Philosopher Who Taught Jerry Seinfeld the Key to Success and Happiness

Nixon Knew His Price Controls Wouldn't Work—and so Does Kamala Harris

Philip K. Dick on 'How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later'

Why Donald Trump Should Appoint RFK Jr. CIA Director if He Wins

The CIA's Sinister Plot to Assassinate Patrice Lumumba—by Poisoning His Toiletries

Washington Post: 'If your opponent claims you’re a communist...'

What Beavis and Butt-Head Can Teach You about White Privilege Theory

Why John Deere, Tractor Supply, and Other Companies Are Retreating From Social Activism

Vietnam Is a Blueprint for How Nations Escape Poverty

What The Godfather Teaches Us About Politics and Government

A Personal Announcement

Why Jordan Peterson Decorated His Home With Soviet Propaganda Art For Years

How J.R.R. Tolkien Responded to the Bombing of Nagasaki

Surprise! Argentina's Economy Is Growing Again Under Javier Milei

Andrew Sullivan Is Not Impressed With Tim Walz

What Rat Park Can Teach Us about Addiction

Humanity Is Inching Toward Huxley's Dark Prophecy

The New York Times Is in Denial about Venezuela's Collapse

The Matrix, Spoon Boy, and the Chinese Philosopher Who Explained Spontaneous Order 2,000 Years Before Adam Smith

Why the ‘Green’ Revolution Is Collapsing All Over the World

Why Self-Sacrifice Is (Still) the Most Powerful Idea in Movies

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Strange Alternate Ending to ‘The Lord of the Rings’

14 Signs of Totalitarianism

How Marcus Aurelius Started His Mornings

Why Did a Future CIA Director Bury Evidence of the Holocaust?

BREAKING: Biden Drops Out

Biden's Student Debt Cancellation Scheme Is a Trainwreck

Cobra Kai Is Back, And Here's Why I'll Be Watching It Tonight

Proof That the Nazis Were Socialists

Why Raw Milk Dealers Are Now a Thing

Was Watergate Reporter Bob Woodward in Naval Intelligence? It's Complicated.

The Actual Villain in Shawshank Redemption Isn't Who You Think

7 Reasons to Oppose 'Red Flag' Guns Laws

Why Academics Struggle to Understand American Patriotism

Dying Words From 7 Founding Fathers

5 Signers of the Declaration of Independence You Probably Never Heard Of

Why Fast Food Prices Are So High

Andrew Jackson's Mother Gave Him This Advice on Her Deathbed

How America's Recycling Crusade Backfired Horribly

"Nyet Means Nyet": Proof That the US Provoked the War in Ukraine

5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)

HBO to Release Adaptation of 'Game of Thrones' Novella

Why You Probably Never Heard about the Deadliest School Attack in US History

The Hidden Moral Lesson in ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’

Why a Vote to Unionize Backfired on Coffeehouse Workers in Philadelphia

'Are We the Baddies?': Niall Ferguson on the Sovietization of America

How the Poorest Nation in the World Lifted Tens of Millions Out of Poverty

Carl Sagan Predicted America’s Future in 'The Demon Haunted World'

10 Lessons Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Father

Remembering Al Gore’s 2009 Warning of 'Ice Free' North Polar Ice Caps in 5 to 7 Years

6 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Books to Read in 2025

Hitler Was a Social Justice Warrior

10 'Subversive' Jokes That Could’ve Landed You in Prison in East Germany

The Washington Post Just Busted Fauci on 'Beagle Gate'

Former NYT Reporter Discusses the 'Goal of the Disinformation Movement'

Fauci's Testimony: 'It Wasn't Me'

My Take on Trump's Conviction

3 Questions Lawmakers Should Ask Fauci Today about His Reported Visit to CIA Headquarters

The Harry Potter Villain Who Personified the Covid Tyrants

Aldous Huxley Predicted Today's Brave New World of Education

How Identity Politics (and Cowardice) Killed 'Vice' Magazine

The Social Experiment That Explains Elizabeth Holmes' Downfall—and the Horrors of Socialism

The Walls Are Closing in on Fauci

Anthony Fauci, Jimmy Lai, and the Most Overlooked Stories in the World

The Rise and Fall of Atari Is a Textbook Example of Creative Destruction

What C.S. Lewis and F.A. Hayek Had to Say about 'Social Justice'

Warren Buffett Says He Looks for These 3 Traits in an Employee

Was Russia Really Trying to Destroy America by Secretly Plotting to Kill Net Neutrality?

When Idi Amin Tried to Fix Uganda's Economy by Printing More Money

Why Biden Went From Ripping Trump's Trade Policies to Embracing Them

Jordan Peterson, Oskar Schindler, and the Line Between Good and Evil

The Real-Life James Bond Who Ran Assassination Teams During World War II

Modern Monetary Theory, Jared Bernstein, and the Rise of TikTok Economics

Oscar Wilde on Selfishness, Unselfishness, and Conformity

Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Baker Street’ and Our Drifting, Fragmented, Anxious Society

The New York Times Is Finally Talking about Covid Vaccine Injuries. Why Now?

3 Secrets to Happiness, According to an 80-year Harvard Study

How Wage Justice Warriors Killed Food Delivery in Seattle

On Death, Grief, Suffering, and Loss

Ray Bradbury on Why Colleges Are 'Dangerous' to Young Minds

Why Socialists Can't Create a PS5

Shōgun Shows Why We Have the Second Amendment

The Real Reason the US Hates Russia (and China)

How to Win Those Arguments about Overpaid and Underpaid Workers

Yes, Biden Is Coming for Your Gasoline-Powered Car

Interest Payments on the National Debt Will Soon Be the Largest Federal Expenditure

Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song' and the Persecution of Julian Assange

Why the Right to Self-Defense Is Crucial to Civilization

Rand Paul on the ‘Great COVID Cover-up’

And Then They Came for Your Gas-Powered Car

From OnlyFans to Born Again Christian?

Confessions of an NPR Editor

Meet the Ex CIA Analyst Who Explained How the CIA Uses Journalists to Spread Disinformation

RoboCop, Political Madness, and the Right to Self-Defense

'The World Is at the Edge of Nuclear War': Jeffrey Sachs

'Study After Study' Has Proved DEI Boosts Corporate Earnings? Wrong.

My Oldest (Living) Movie Review and an Embarrassing Story

Karl Marx's Father Had an Eerie Prediction about His Son

The Origins of China's (Failed) One-Child Policy

Coleman Hughes Gives Hosts of 'The View' an Education on Race and Individualism

An 1850 Police Description of Karl Marx's Home

When Woke Satire Becomes a Ridiculous Reality

The Moment a Veteran Teacher Gave Up on Government Schools

Edith Hamilton on How Athens Fell

Why You Should Stop What You're Doing and Listen to 'Show Me That Smile'

Aldous Huxley on the One Thing That Can Save the Future of Humanity

'I Don't Think This Case Is about Trump Anymore': Kevin O'Leary on New York's $355 Million Judgment

Why I Won't Be Able to Take Uber and Lyft Downtown Anymore

Why America Will Miss Kyrsten Sinema, and I Will Too

Where Socialism Actually Succeeds

How Seinfeld Revealed the Frightening Authoritarianism of Aggressive Do-Gooders

A Case for Drinking—and a Case for Quitting

The 'Climate Crisis' Exposed: The Truth about Climate-Related Mortality

Why US Media Don't Want to Give Javier Milei Favorable Coverage

China's Population Implosion, Explained

Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

Hitler's Chilling Words on His 'Great Achievement'

It's Official: Sweden Won the Lockdown Debate

Why Systemic Racism Is Making a Comeback

Gavin Newsom, Panera Bread, and a Case Study in Political Graft

Has Huxley's 'Brave New World' Already Arrived?

Signs You Are Living During a Revolution

When I First Read This Orwell Quote I Didn't Understand It. Today I Do, and That Frightens Me

The CIA Was Waging a (Cold) War Against Russia Way Before the Ukraine Invasion

Javier Milei Just Delivered a Massive Economic Win in Argentina—and US Media Are Refusing to Report It

The Most Beautiful Passage on Pain, Loneliness, and Sorrow in Literature

A Major Win for Free Speech and Police Reform

20 Quotes on Nonconformity to Stiffen Your Spine and Help You Resist the Crowd

How Vladmir Lenin Inspired the CIA's Long History of Covert Political Warfare

New Jersey's Disastrous Plastic Bag Ban, Explained

A Famed Financial Analyst Says the Dollar Is 'Finished'. Is He Right?

Meet the Henry Ford of Valentine's Day Cards

Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson, and Tucker Carlson's Interview With Vladimir Putin

Why Harvey Keitel Got Fired by Stanley Kubrick While Filming 'Eyes Wide Shut'

Why Usher Got Paid $0 to Headline the Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show—and Why That's OK

Linzi Smith's Ban From St James’ Park Is Proof the World Has Lost Its Mind

What Sin City (and Solzhenitsyn) Can Teach You about Power and Lies

Are Student Loans a Scam? Well ...

The FBI deliberately shredded the 4th Amendment in an $86 million cash grab

Watch a Young Paul Ehrlich Propose Jailing Americans Who Have "Too Many" Children

'The Man Who Was Thursday': G.K. Chesterton's Greatest Novel

What Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Mother Thought of Germany's Public Schools—and What She Did About It

Justin Trudeau finally brought to heel for his tyrannical use of emergency powers

The Magic of Ennio Morricone's Music

How a Meddling Socialist Trust-Fund Baby Killed the L.A. Times

3 Real-Life Inspirations for George Orwell’s 1984

Mr. Milei Goes to Davos

Mom For Liberty: 'In What Context Is a Strap-On Dildo Acceptable for Public School'?

Was a News Intern Just Fired by the New York Times Over a Joke Targeting the 'Hot Houthi Pirate'?

Why NPR Says the $34 Trillion Debt Is Definitely Not a Problem

An Announcement—and a Word on Keep Dystopia at Bay

Fauci's Congressional Testimony Is Already Damning—and We're Just Getting Started

Communism Delivered the Worst Car in History: The Trabant

Stephen King's Best Writing Tips

The Chilling Historical Roots of ‘Political Correctness’

Will America Choose Javier Milei or Hugo Chavez?

The Real Value of Having Children Empty the Dishwasher (and Muck Barn Stalls)

Why Did a Future CIA Director Hide Evidence of the Holocaust During WWII?

My Visit to Starbucks and the Decline of Good Manners and Service

Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter Have a Similar Moral Lesson on Power

'The Executioner’s Song': The Best Nonfiction Novel Ever Written