What a week–dancing on graves, predatory Liberty, and chicken controversies. Here are some of the biggest stories:
Another view of conservative sex ed: A review of Nancy Pearcey’s Love Thy Body at FT.
Wow: What NYC looked like in 1911, thanks to restored Swedish film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohXOpKtns0
White evangelicals and Trump: Greg Carey reviews John Fea’s Believe Me at RD.
- And while you’re at it, check out Eric Miller’s interview with Professor Fea.
Chik-fil-A’s “creepy infiltration” of New York.
- Daniel Piepenbring cries fowl in the New Yorker. (Sorry.)
- Conservatives respond:
- From the archives: Why do both sides assume that New York is not the capital of conservative evangelicalism? At ILYBYGTH.
Did “lax discipline policies” cause the Parkland school shooting? RCI.
How Liberty Online U. got so big, at NYT.
- What NYT missed about evangelical higher education, at PS.
- The vital history NYT ignored, here at ILYBYGTH.
Here’s a weird one: Michigan high school closed after Confederate-flag-waving trucks parked outside. At DN.
And it gets even weirder–I missed this story when it first came out, but schools in my neighborhood are arming students with buckets of rocks to repel invaders. At Reuters. HT: SMSL.
- And weirder still! This PA district gives teachers miniature baseball bats. At CNN.
- Does anyone really think this is a good idea? At ILYBYGTH.
Lovin Trump: White evangelical support higher than ever, at PRRI.
Are we dancing on graves now? The Randa Jarrar/Barbara Bush story. HT: MM.
- Fresno State donors close their checkbooks, at NY Post.
- Rod Dreher: Jarrar is all that is wrong with the academy, at AC.
- Support for Prof. Jarrar at LitHop.
- Why don’t more people simply ignore this kind of thing? By Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic.
- Listen to excerpts from Jarrar’s public talks, at
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