Here is more from the American Historical Association website: To date, at least 14 states have passed legislation prohibiting the teaching of concepts associated with race and slavery in the United States. At least another 16 states have similar bills […]
critical race theory
Ted Cruz sends his daughters to an antiracist school that seems to promote ideas that he defines as critical race theory
The Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings have been an utter embarrassment for the GOP members of the judicial committee. Take Ted Cruz, for example. His hypocrisy knows no bounds. Earlier this week I wrote about Ted Cruz’s attempt to demonize […]
What Ted Cruz doesn’t know about Georgetown Day School (and critical race theory)
Watch Ted Cruz grill Supreme Court justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on critical race theory: Just for the record, critical race theory does not teach, as Cruz claims, that all of life is explained best by the clash of the […]
What the chair of the Grove City College Board of Trustees believes about diversity, inclusion, and equity
Some of you have been following the discussion of critical race theory and “wokeness” at Grove City College. If you haven’t, get up to speed here and here and here and here. Let’s go back to the February 16, 2022 […]
Eric Metaxas chides Tim Keller for reading too much (and other evidence of the scandal of the evangelical mind)
If you want to see Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind at work, watch Eric Metaxas’s interview with Lucas Miles at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters. Lucas is the author of a book titled The Christian […]
A critic of critical race theory says the campaign against CRT is “abhorrent and dangerous and deeply disturbing”
Randall Kennedy is a Harvard law professor and author. He recently talked with Nathan J. Robinson, editor of Current Affairs, about his new book Say It Out Loud : On Race, Law, History, and Culture. Here is a taste of […]
Religion News Service covers the Grove City College CRT debate
Here is a taste of Kathryn Post’s piece: Warren Throckmorton, a professor of psychology who signed the second faculty letter, told Religion News Service that some faculty are unsure how to respond to the board’s rejection of critical race theory […]
A historian of the South has a few words for the Alabama State Legislature
Here is the legendary Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Auburn University: Dear Alabama Legislators: I called the office of my state senator several weeks ago concerning House Bill 312, which proposes to restrict how K-12 public school educators […]
The latest in the Grove City College “woke” saga
We have covered this story here and here. Now a group of former students, students, and friends of the college have published a Facebook petition ‘regarding recent controversies over Critical Race Theory and conversations about race at the college.” It […]
Grove City College update
We originally covered this story here. Colleen Flaherty gets us up to speed at Inside Higher Education. Grove City College’s Board of Trustees recently said that it had formed a committee to investigate allegations of “mission drift” on campus and […]
Reuters uncovers threats made to school board members
It is getting scary out there. Here is Reuters: Reuters documented the intimidation through contacts and interviews with 33 board members across 15 states and a review of threatening and harassing messages obtained from the officials or through public records requests. […]
What is going on at Grove City College?
Is Grove City College, a conservative Christian liberal arts college in western Pennsylvania, promoting critical race theory? I have no idea. The phrase “critical race theory” has become such a bogeyman in evangelical and conservative circles that it is impossible […]
Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia history
Washington Post writer Dana Milbank got his hands on a 7th grade Virginia history textbook used in the commonwealth’s public schools from the 1950s through the 1970s. Here is a taste of his piece: Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin opened a tip line so […]
What happened when a conservative student took a course on critical race theory at the University of Mississippi?
Here is a taste of Molly Minta’s piece at Mississippi Today: Brittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states. She went to Northwest Rankin High […]
How the debate over CRT has led three states to alter their history standards
This is an important study: Education Week reviewed hundreds of standards and thousands of pages of public comment relating to the standards-writing processes in South Dakota, Louisiana, and New Mexico, all of which took up revisions in 2021, and interviewed […]
High school student: The retaliation against CRT is a projection of parents’ biases and fears
Christiane Calixte, a junior at Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, writes: “the retaliation against CRT shows that parents have no idea what students are learning — and that their protests are less about education and more about a projection of […]
No Virginia, Frederick Douglass did not debate Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
A delegate of the General Assembly of Virginia wants better citizenship education for the students of the Commonwealth. Earlier this week Wren Williams proposed a bill (House Bill 781) to amend the Code of Virginia to strengthen “student citizenship skills.” […]
Historian Jonathan Couser responds to George Will’s column on individualism and identity politics
Yesterday I wrote a post on George Will’s recent column on identity politics and modernity. Over at Facebook, historian Jonathan Couser responded to Wills. Here is his take, published with his permission. –JF George Will is one of the few […]
A conservative defends critical race theory
I spent a day with Washington Post columnist Gary Abernathy at Messiah College right before the pandemic hit. Read about it here. Since then I have read him regularly. His recent column on critical race theory is worth your time. […]
A David Barton disciple, Liberty University graduate, and state legislator wants to ban 800 books from Texas public schools
His name is Matt Krause. He is a Texas State Representative and a speaker for Wallbuilders, an organization founded by David Barton that uses the American past to promote right-win political agendas. Here is Talia Richman and Allie Morris at […]