Another busy week: Here are some ILYBYGTH-themed stories that came across our desk recently:

Can a creationist parent successfully sue a school district for teaching evolution? Not in PA, at NCSE.

Words, words, words…

Are international students a higher-ed security threat? FBI director says yes, at IHE.

Conservative college professor to conservative UCLA students: Don’t invite Milo, at WS.

• What does this tell us about the real issues of campus free speech? At ILYBYGTH.

“Any reasonable person will agree…” At HXA, Musa Al-Gharbi points out that reasonable people are actually better at disagreeing, with three suggestions for better cross-culture-war communication.

• How we can use this to bridge our creation/evolution trenchlines, here at ILYBYGTH.

How Protestantism shaped the modern world: An interview with Alec Ryrie at R&P.

Was this the most gruesome battle in human history?

RIP Billy Graham, at CNN.

• Historians weigh in on Graham’s life and influence:
  • Randall Balmer eulogizes.
  • Matthew Avery Sutton condemns.
  • Grant Wacker shares Graham’s view of death.
  • Why Graham was perceived as a threat by fundamentalist college leaders, at ILYBYGTH.

What’s wrong with Black History Month? At The Progressive.

School shootings:

• It’s horrible now and will be for a long time: Daniel Willingham looks at the data on long-term educational effects of school shootings.
• The Florida legislature might not ban guns, but it looks like they will pass this new school law, at NPR.

Ted Cruz: The Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson. GOP is for Homer, Marge, Bart, and Maggie. At USA Today, HT: BM.

What’s wrong with standardizing student assessment at colleges? Molly Worthen tees off at NYT.

West Virginia teachers go on strike, at CNN.

How Liberalism Failed: Albert Mohler interviews Patrick Deneen.

Conservatives need to confront campus radicalism, by Noah Rothman at Commentary.