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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
How Marcus Aurelius Started His Mornings
Why Did a Future CIA Director Bury Evidence of the Holocaust?
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'
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?
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
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
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