I’m not reading much that isn’t from the 1820s these days, but there were some stories this week that just couldn’t be ignored:

What vouchers will do: Orlando Sentinel explores fundamentalist textbooks paid for with tax dollars.

Should taxes pay for these textbooks?

• Love it or hate it, vouchers raise tough questions: Can only SOME religious schools be cut off? At ILYBYGTH.

John McWhorter on Ta-Nehisi Coates: “more . . . performance art than thought.” At AI.

Mormon and gay—inside the process at BYU. At CHE.

• Could the same surprising change-agent work in evangelical colleges? Here at ILYBYGTH.

Dollars for scholars: Koch spending on campus, at CHE.

Franklin Graham tries to win California voters for conservative evangelicalism, at NYT.

• Why does he bother to pretend it’s not about politics? We ask at ILYBYGTH.

Title IX at Moody Bible Institute, “The West Point of Fundamentalism:” Molly Worthen at NYT.