Armistice Day, a century later. Subterranean rivers of ecstasy and violence, a generation later. This week saw a lot of remembrance and few new shockers:
Fart jokes land a professor in hot water at CHE.
Ha ha ha…you’re fired.
How many people go to Ark Encounter? Parsing the attendance numbers at FA.
We’ve been here before: Andrew Bacevich’s lessons from the Sixties at AC.
Once more the subterranean river has unleashed the forces of ecstasy and violence. . . . And as in 1968, little evidence exists to suggest that the nation’s political class has the capacity to comprehend what is occurring, much less the wit and courage needed to address the problem. . . . [Yet] the center will ultimately hold. The market for ecstasy and violence will once more prove to be limited and transitory.
- Do you buy it? We ask here at ILYBYGTH.
When is personalized learning not? Peter Greene at Forbes.
Young evangelicals and politics at NYT.
…gulp. Is this billboard real? At Snopes.
…really?
Wisconsin university spends $5,000 to bring porn star to campus, at JS. HT: MM
UFOs, 19th-century style. The Great Airship Delusion at RCP.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
Trump bans CNN reporter from White House, at CNN.
Why don’t people put their money where their kids are? At TIASL.
From “no excuses” to “restorative justice” at some KIPP schools. Chalkbeat.
It DID happen here: The history of American pogroms at Politico.
Christian Fronters, c. 1940
Teacher strikes move north: Anchorage teachers walk out of school-board meeting. At ADN.
Is Bucky back? Gov. Walker’s ouster in Wisconsin provides glimmer of hope to UWisconsin, at CHE.
Armistice Day recollections:
- WWI in photos at Newsweek.
- The secret weapon of WWI recruiting at CW.
- Myths of WWI at HE.
- Myths of WWI at PS.
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