Our weekly news ‘n’ views roundup:
Remembering 9/11:
- The history of the towers, at BI.
- Teaching 9/11 to students who don’t remember it, at USAT.
- What are 9/11 memorials on college campuses really about? At Slate.
- Should conservative college students be allowed to be angry about it? Here at ILYBYGTH.
Peter Greene: What Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are doing in schools is something, but it’s not “philanthropy.”
Modern fauxlanthropy is not about helping people; it’s about buying control, about hiring people to promote your own program and ideas. It’s about doing an end run around the entire democratic process, even creating positions that never existed, like Curriculum Director of the United States, and then using sheer force of money to appoint yourself to that position. It’s about buying compliance.
- Does that apply to this $2B plan by the world’s richest man?
Is American higher education addicted to opportunism? DG Hart reviews a new book about Wendell Berry and the university, at FPR.
How do they do it over there? A new UK report recommends adding atheism to the list of religions studied in publicly funded schools, at the Guardian.
Does anyone understand American conservatism?
Does anyone understand the history of American conservatism?
At Harvard and Yale, more freshman identify as LGBTQ+ than as conservative, at NBC.
Creationist victories in public schools, at AU.
Can an evangelical candidate get Florida to vote Democrat? At NR.
Can King pull evangelicals to the Blue side?
Gay’s not OK in PA: conservative evangelical college turns away a homosexual student, at IHE.
University of Nebraska surveys itself: Do conservatives feel welcome? At CHE.
- Why didn’t they survey themselves right? We ask at ILYBYGTH.
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