Hard to believe another week has come and gone so fast. It has been difficult to keep tabs on all the ILYBYGTH-related stories out there. Here are a few that SAGLRROILYGYBTH might find interesting:
If you were the principal, what would YOU do? This South Carolina teacher got suspended for having her kids defend the Klan. HT: MM
- The New York Times picked up the story, too. They offer a little more context of similar sorts of classroom assignments from around the country.
Five Wheaton College students face charges in a violent hazing assault, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
- Pietist Schoolman Chris Gehrz worries about the anti-Islamic tones of the attack.
- How does football change evangelical colleges? Christianity Today’s Mark Galli interviewed Dan Wood of the National Christian College Athletics Association.
- ILYBYGTH noted the long history of tension between high-flying athletic programs and evangelical colleges.
Ben Shapiro on the problem with college protesters, the “idol of self.”
What should a science booster-club leader do when a parent questions his religious beliefs? One story from the National Center for Science Education.
Did the right wing come from outer space? David Auerbach looks at the sci-fi roots of radical conservatism.
“More…than just big hair and money.” An interview with John Wigger, author of a new history of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
What are historians saying about Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s new Vietnam War documentary? At HNN, Professor Bob Buzzanco offers a few criticisms.
What do standardized history tests tell us? Not so much, argues Sam Wineburg and his colleagues.
Why so few conservative professors? George Yancey says there’s more to it than self-selection.
A portrait of a culture-war powerhouse: Daniel Bennett on the history of conservative legal activists Alliance Defending Freedom.
- Why should SAGLRROILYBYGTH care about ADF? Because—as ILYBYGTH argues this week—such legal activist groups are a key player in our continuing culture wars.