Happy Monday: Time for another weekly round-up of top ILYBYGTH-themed stories from around the interwebs…
A Jewish scheme to wreck civilization: An interview with the author of A Specter Haunting Europe at RWN.
Sex, marriage, and the creation of an evangelical market, by Daniel Silliman.
LA gets ready for its looming teacher strike, at LATimes.
A(nother) call for a conservative secular higher-ed alternative, at NA.
- Sarah Jones says it’s nothing but a plea for a conservative “safe space,” at NYMag.
- The problem for conservative higher-ed runs even deeper, we say here at ILYBYGTH.
Can a serious conservative-evangelical scholar still work at Liberty U? The New Yorker profiles Karen Swallow Prior. H/T: AT
Sometimes, when her students become disheartened by Liberty’s conservative political bent, they ask her why she stays. “And I tell them, honestly, I went to a liberal university. I know what it’s like. I mean, it’s not perfect here, but it’s better.”
Teachers with guns? This Florida teacher says no, at SFSS.

I wuvs you, but I don’t wuvs Trump…
Historians on Trump’s wall speech at HNN.
Zoiks: Fan of localism and democracy? Then get ready for rich white men to control your schools, at T74.
- Uncomfortable question: Does this mean lefties need to oppose local democracy? Here at ILYBYGTH.
Things get ugly at a classics convention, at IHE.
Williams turned and addressed Peralta directly, declaring that she was “not a socialist” and that Peralta only got his job because he is “black,” those present said.
Winter got you down? At least it’s not as bad as the “Great Die-Off” storm of 1887, at Smithsonian.
Evangelicals and Trump—a commentary collection at Righting America.