Posts under ‘education’

The Visionaries Have Breached Academia

About a month ago I was preparing a streaming video player for an event at work. During downtime, the player streams old content from Michigan Television (public TV at U of M that has now been closed). In a pleasant coincidence, I happened to see an interview with Thylias Moss, an English professor at U-M [...]

How a Drill-Crazy Dentist Is Rewriting Your Kid’s History Book

In the New York Times Sunday Magazine published on February 11, an article by Russel Shorto called “How Christian Were the Founders?” looked into recent efforts by the Texas school board to inject into history and civics curriculum the idea that America was founded officially as a Christian nation. Their other aim is to wipe [...]