I spent the week buried in the Philadelphia archives, but somehow the world kept on turnin. Here are a couple of stories this week that have nothing to do with Joseph Lancaster.
Defending Kanye at NR.
Do they care that we’re conservatives?
Pence at Hillsdale commencement—the conservative collegiate long game, at Politico.
A Canadian university wonders: Can only Indigenous professors teach about First-Nations history? At CBC.
Peter Greene tees off on Florida’s standardized tests for five-year-olds. At Curmudgucation.
Should fans of Wendell Berry forsake social media? Matt Stewart makes the case at FPR.
- “We can rest assured, bonded by our faith in each other’s commitment to at least forsaking Twitter, that we are closer to being localists than to being hipster localists. The distinction is simple: a localist does not have to keep the Big Ether informed of one’s commitment to localism at all times and in all places.”
Get em young: Sarah Pulliam Bailey rides along on a Christian-nationalist kids’ tour of DC. At WaPo.
Signs of the apocalypse?
Apocalypticism, Trump, and Jerusalem:
- Poll numbers show some conservative evangelicals believe the Jerusalem move is a Biblical necessity, at WaPo.
- Moving the embassy and the evangelical vote, at R&P.
- ‘On the edge of the pro-embassy throng, Soraya Zamora, who served as a Trump delegate at the 2016 Republican National Convention, told me that the president had been appointed by God for a moment such as this. “This land is not going to go to anyone else,” said Zamora, who lives in the Rio Grande area of Texas. “This is the land of the people of the land, the people the book. The Jewish people.”’
School revolts hold the key to stopping Trumpism: Henry Giroux at BR.
Standardized tests…what could go wrong? The fallout from glitchy tests in Tennessee, at Chalkbeat.
Arizona tried to edit evolution out of its science standards, at KNAU.
- It’s the oldest trick not in the book, at ILYBYGTH.
Asking uncomfortable questions at SMU—“Why are Black people so loud?”—“What is the difference between white trash and white people?” At CHE.
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