The ILYBYGTH International Offices are back up and running after a short vacation. Here are some of the stories that swirled while we sang our vacation theme song:
From the Archives: Mildred Crabtree does her thing, at National Archives.

Rockin the library, Crabtree-style.
Larry Cuban remembers creepy Channel One.
Non-white evangelicals in era of Trump: “When push comes to shove, I feel like you threw me under a bus.” At R&P.
Conservative Ben Shapiro challenges Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a debate, at Fox. Does it count as sexual harassment?
- Or could it be an old creationist tactic? Here at ILYBYGTH.
In the belly of the beast: the American Humanist Association continues its fight against graduation prayers in the hometown of Bob Jones University.
The state of civics education in the USA, at Brookings.
Trumpism abroad: Evangelicals rally around a thug in Brazil, at The Conversation.
Peter Greene: Why heartwarming school stories don’t warm his heart.
No school should ever need a celebrity’s help. No nice people with cash should ever encounter a teacher shopping for classroom supplies. And it should never occur to anyone that a teacher might need a decent car. Thank you, nice people, for helping out teachers or schools in need. Now can we focus some energy on fixing the system so that schools and teachers never need to depend on the kindness of strangers ever again.
The other Benedict Option, at CT.
The oxymoronic quest of academics to build their brands, at CHE.