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Annie Holmquist served as the editor of Intellectual Takeout from 2018 to 2022. When not writing or editing, she enjoys reading, gardening, and time with family and friends.
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Roughly 2 in 3 of America’s 12th-graders Can’t Read. Here’s Why.30
- Education, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 10, 2025
I was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far
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Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class57
- Culture, Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 21, 2025
A few years ago, I interviewed a married couple for an article, who, although only in their mid-20s, already owned a thriving business. This couple had met in a high school welding class – a fact which prompted the husband to joke that “sparks flew.” Humor aside, I was intrigued to hear that a welding class
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Bridging the Political Rift One Face-to-face Conversation at a Time38
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 8, 2025
It’s commonly observed that political vitriol is stronger than ever before in recent memory. The left thinks the right is a bunch of Nazis ready to Sieg Heil to Trump whenever possible, while the right thinks the left is a bunch of tone-deaf, cross-dressing terrorists, ready to riot on cue. The great rift is growing
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‘To Labor Is to Pray’ – Reviving Craftsmanship in American Life18
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 5, 2025
I’ve had a nagging feeling in recent months that I’m a bit of a dinosaur in a certain area of fashion. The reason? I still wear a wristwatch. By wristwatch, I don’t mean a minicomputer screen strapped above my hand from which I get texts and monitor my heartbeat and blood pressure (or whatever else
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The Christian Quote that Everyone Takes out of Context
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- November 13, 2018
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Did LBJ Say, ‘I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years’?
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- October 10, 2016
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