The holiday week didn’t seem to slow down the culture-war rhetoric. Here are a couple of ILYBYGTH-themed stories that came across our desk this week. Thanks to everyone who sent in stories and tips.
Historian Sean Wilentz on the difference between “liberals” and “progressives.”
- “there is a rumor abroad in the land that only progressives care about the powerless and the poor, whereas liberals are just vaguely left-of-center fig leaves for plutocrats and globalizers. . . . This was edifying and improbable pandering.”
ARE the times a-changin?
LGBTQ issues at evangelical colleges, at NPR. HT: EC.
- Is this an updated version of anti-segregation activism? Nope. At ILYBYGTH.
- How change can look: King’s University in Edmonton switches from firing gay teachers to welcoming LGBTQ+ students, at EJ. HT: XX.
Yes: Why do white evangelicals love Trump?
- It’s not just Christianity, it’s Christian nationalism. At WaPo.
- It’s old-school partisanship, at NYT: “Eighty percent of white evangelicals would vote against Jesus Christ himself if he ran as a Democrat.”
Double standards, elite liberal hypocrisy, and Trump-shaming, at FPR.
It’s tough to be a teacher, by Andrew Heller.
What do Hungarian school children read in their textbooks? “It can be problematic. . . . for different cultures to coexist.” At NYT. HT: HD.
The David defense: Trump’s relationship with Stormy Daniels in biblical language, at Vox.
Life after polygamy in Short Creek, at R&P.
Schools are getting safer these days, in spite of how it feels. From NCES.
- Why don’t pundits talk more about it? Right here at ILYBYGTH.
The coming collapse of Christian colleges, by Rod Dreher at AC.
- Not so fast, at ILYBYGTH.
More teachers’ strikes: Kentucky teachers stay home, at CNN.
Should history be patriotic? At The Atlantic.
Want to save the humanities?
- Musa al-Gharbi: Hire conservative professors, at THE.
- Mark Bauerlein: Make freshmen work, at CHE.
- ILYBYGTH: Provide the one thing students can’t live without.
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