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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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  • Americans Need a Lesson From ‘The 1620 Project’

    Americans Need a Lesson From ‘The 1620 Project’0

    This week marks a momentous anniversary for the United States. On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims set off on the voyage which launched the birth of a new nation. Once upon a time, such an anniversary would have been greeted with pomp and circumstance. As Mark David Hall notes in his Chronicles article, “The 1620

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  • Upset About ‘Cuties’? Let’s Re-examine ‘Frozen’ First.

    Upset About ‘Cuties’? Let’s Re-examine ‘Frozen’ First.0

    I had seen complaints about the Netflix film Cuties floating around the internet for a while, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a glimpse of what they were talking about. Clips of the movie accompanied the Twitter trend #CancelNetflix. The film moments I saw before I hit the stop button are shocking, to

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  • Fighting the Industrialized School System One Grandparent at a Time

    Fighting the Industrialized School System One Grandparent at a Time0

    Last spring found my neighbors unexpectedly homeschooling their grandchildren. The little ones racing by my house on scooters at “recess time,” grandparents in tow, were soon joined by a couple older students. Upon inquiry, it was discovered that their homeschool had expanded to another family caught high and dry by the lockdowns. This grandparent-operated homeschool

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  • Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots

    Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots0

    The other day, I drove past the place where it all started. One pulls up to the flashing red stoplight and looks left to check for traffic. There’s no need to look right, because the traffic won’t be there. Instead, one sees cement barricades, covered with scrawling graffiti, and a block down, the now nationally

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