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    Annie Holmquist

    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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  • Making a True Man

    Making a True Man0

    Sometimes the simplest conversations yield the most profound insights. I discovered that the other day when I stopped to chat with our UPS delivery man. Always friendly, the two of us had some good conversations in 2019 or 2020 BC (that’s Before COVID), but we hadn’t seen each other since the great plague. When I

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  • Raising Well-Adjusted Adults In Spite of the Pandemic

    Raising Well-Adjusted Adults In Spite of the Pandemic0

    “My mom is seriously thinking of homeschooling this fall,” a friend recently told me. This was a surprise, for although the family had previously homeschooled, they had chosen traditional schooling for their children in recent years. Curious, I asked my friend if her mother found traditional homeschooling different from the distance education that most families

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  • Abolishing History From the Classroom Is What Got Us Into This Mess

    Abolishing History From the Classroom Is What Got Us Into This Mess0

    History’s time in the classroom has come and gone. At least, that seems to be the view of an Illinois state representative. According to NBC, Rep. La Shawn Ford of Chicago claims that the citizens of Illinois have been subjected to “miseducation” in their history curriculum, and as such, he demands “immediate action by removing current history books

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  • Three Ways Antifa Is Like the Nazis They Condemn

    Three Ways Antifa Is Like the Nazis They Condemn0

    When the antifa phenomenon arrived on the scene several years ago, I observed the name of this new movement was rather oxymoronic. Antifa, one college professor claimed, is very postmodern in its mindset, and as such, replaces objective reality with “lived experience.” This relativist mindset, I noted, was very much like the one Benito Mussolini

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