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.
I’ll admit it. I’ve always had a secret fondness for stories about one-room schools. Why? Perhaps it’s the simpler time. Perhaps it’s the fact that they seemed to value good education and hard work. Perhaps it’s the family-like structure and community they fostered. That last element is especially missing from today’s schools, which ship busloads
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My father lost his job while I was in grade school. Due to an economic downturn and attempts to start a business, my family lived without a regular paycheck for over two years. It was rough. We tightened our belts and became experts in frugality. But one doesn’t feel the big pressures of economic distress
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If you haven’t heard, the city of San Francisco is setting out to rid itself of terrorism. Domestic terrorism, that is. “Great!” many of us would say. “A city should work hard to keep its citizens safe.” The trouble is, San Francisco has an interesting definition of what constitutes a domestic terrorist. In a recent
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Diversity. It’s one of the buzzwords of this generation. Forget sameness, everyone must be different, while at the same time inclusive. It’s that simple. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it? A utopia promoted by institutions of all stripes, not the least of which are America’s public schools. But what if our promotion of diversity is
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