Welcome to 2018! You might think the last week of the year would be quiet, but you’d be wrong. Here are a couple of the ILYBYGTH-style stories that jumped out at us over the past week:

Issue in review: Has Trumpism killed evangelicalism?

• Timothy Keller says probably, at The New Yorker.
• Giving up the evangelical label, by Peter Wehner at NYT.
• The CT survey.
• Ditching the evangelical label, at CSM.
• The evangelical label is “irreversibly tainted,” at WaPo.
• Why Princeton’s evangelical student fellowship abandoned the name.
• Why it is “too political,” by Amy Julia Becker at WaPo.
• Trump and the debasement of white evangelicals, by Ed Simon at HNN.
  • “In 2017 all it takes for many right-wing Christians is to be taken to the top-floor of Trump Tower, be shown all the kingdoms of the world, and they’ll gladly prostrate themselves before an idol for a bit of temporal power.”
• From the ILYBYGTH archives:
  • Evangelical support for Trump is not an exception, but a rule.
  • Roy Moore and creationist suspicions.
  • Politics has always defined evangelicalism.
  • Radical creationists yearn to make America creationist again.

Conservatives and the higher education “scapegoat,” by Catherine Rampell at WaPo.

• The history of conservative anger at higher education, right here at ILYBYGTH.

The thing white professors won’t talk about, by Robert Cherry at RCEd.

Want to avoid a “death of despair?” Go to college. At CHE, research about the link between higher education and better health.

Jeffrey Salkin admires LDS (Mormons). But he wants them to stop baptizing dead Jewish people, at RNS.

Why one evangelical leader left Trump’s evangelical council. AR Bernard explains his departure to Samantha Bee: “Better think carefully what you are given in exchange for your life, your reputation.”

What’s wrong with the pseudo-intellectual Right? Paul Gottfried tees off on D’Souza, Prager, and Goldberg at AC. Gottfried’s conclusion:

• “there is . . . a plague of genuinely ridiculous writings on historical subjects coming from conservative media celebrities that surpass in their arrogant stupidity almost anything I’ve encountered in professional journals. As for people who yap about the ideologically tainted work that originates in our universities, one might hope they’d be somewhat better than those they declaim against. That’s not always the case.”