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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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  • 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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  • Copying Rome’s Last Gasps and Searching for a Way Out

    Copying Rome’s Last Gasps and Searching for a Way Out0

    “How do you know if you’re living through the death of an empire?” is the blunt question heading a Mother Jones piece. A friend recently brought this article to my attention, and although written in mid-March 2020 when the COVID-19 virus was still “novel” and seclusion at home rather than rioting in the streets was

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