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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.

We recently passed the anniversary of the highly publicized encounter between Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips. Initial reports of the incident – including those from news sources such as CNN and The Washington Post – maligned Sandmann as a disrespectful young man. Sandmann was introduced to the
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My father’s childhood in small town America was great fodder for the stories he told me growing up. One of these stories revolved around a large sandbox down the block from his home. While playing there one evening, he overheard a conversation from the neighboring Johnson* house. The family was having dinner, but all was
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Early in 2019, Seattle-based TV station KOMO News released a documentary on the sorry state of the Emerald City. Seattle, it seems, has become a place of drugs, crime, and homeless encampments. Concerns about Seattle’s situation go beyond the documentary. Christopher Sandford, a Seattle journalist and author, experienced this firsthand while attending a college debate
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Want to know some surprising facts about transgenderism? Physician Michael Laidlaw has some to offer in a recent article for Public Discourse: More than 60 gender clinics have opened in the U.S. since 2007. The transgender student population is growing. Surveys show “as many as 3 percent of school kids now identify as transgender.” One
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