It’s been a busy week here in the offices of ILYBYGTH International! Here are some of the stories that came across our desk that we thought you might find interesting:
Trump’s proclamation for Education Week.
- The usual conservative buzzwords, but some from the other side, too, at ILYBYGTH.
What was the “city on a hill” really about? Not what Reagan thought, at WaPo.
Two insufficient ways schools teach WWI. At TC.

This WILL be on the test!
School privatization takes a hit in the mid-term elections, at T74.
Freaking out yet about the Asia Bibi case? At the Guardian.
- Here at ILYBYGTH we ask: Are these right-wing mobs scarier than their left-wing counterparts?
What do you do if you support teacher strikes but lose your bid for Congress? Run for President, at Politico.
More swings than a school playground: Hillary Clinton is back IN the Texas history standards, at DMN.
Are evangelicals cracking up? Eric Miller interviews Paul Djupe at R&P.
we can foresee almost no circumstances at this point that would intervene in the mutual love affair—the equally yoked relationship—between white evangelicals and Trump. But, that necessarily entails a crackup of evangelicalism.
More than double-secret probation on the line: Dartmouth sued for allowing “Animal House” antics by three well-funded professors, at IHE.
Are the real anti-Semites on the Left? At Spectator.
What can conservatives and progressives agree on? Deriding tax breaks for Amazon, at the Federalist.
Jill Lepore on her new non-textbook textbook, at CHE.
A former school superintendent describes his disillusion with testing at Chalkbeat.
We’re not playing the long game for our kids.
Rutgers changes its mind: It’s okay if a white professor is anti-white, at FIRE.
- The background here at ILYBYGTH.
- The worrisome potential of this decision at ILYBYGTH.
- What does it have to do with the “White Student Union” at Yale?
Money-laundering Bible college busted, at CT.
Will the real populist please stand up? R.R. Reno at TAM.
When the ruling class ignores or derides the unsettled populace (as is happening today — deplorables, takers, and so forth), the restlessness jells into an adversarial mood. A populist is anyone who gains political power on the strength of this adversarial stance.
Agellius
/ November 19, 2018That’s the best explanation of populism I’ve seen.