Those of us who live our lives in semesters are feeling a dizzying sense of high-speed hoopla as we take the final plunge toward the end of the semester. In all the huff and stuff, here are some ILYBYGTH-related news stories you might have missed:
Why do conservatives hate higher education? At The Atlantic, Jason Blakely offers an explanation.
- But his argument is only half baked: the ILYBYGTH response.
No more safe spaces—except for conservatives. House higher-ed bill throws some brontosaurus-sized bones to campus conservatives, as reported by Politico.
The conservative National Association of Scholars claims another win. AP European History changes its standards in response to NAS criticism. HT: DR
Selling the naming rights to your local school—Peter Greene objects.
Is Silicon Valley taking over classrooms? Larry Cuban says yes and no.
The latest crisis in public education: Good News. The graduation rate is at an all-time high.
It’s all Greek to me: At The Atlantic, two opposing ancient concepts of free speech.
Moore-o-mania:
- Roy Moore yearns for the good old days, “even though we had slavery.”
- At The New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells argues that the Roy Moore saga dramatizes “the general drift of the Republican Party in recent years: the most outlandish viewpoint in the room had been listened to and duly accommodated.”
- At NYT: Peter Wehner explains why one conservative evangelical is ditching the GOP and the “evangelical” label:
- “Assume you were a person of the left and an atheist, and you decided to create a couple of people in a laboratory to discredit the Republican Party and white evangelical Christianity. You could hardly choose two more perfect men than Donald Trump and Roy Moore.”
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