This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
11/7/2022
"While many other speakers described higher education’s commitment to the pursuit of truth as fading, the conference was heavy on anecdotes and speculative diagnostics relative to clear data."
Source: Washington Post
11/3/2022
Critics have called the Virginia governor's hotline for reporting "divisive" concepts in the classroom as a vehicle for snitching and intimidation directed at teachers by the conservative parents who were active in Youngkin's political coalition.
Source: Wired
11/1/2022
From abortion to classroom teaching, state laws are increasingly incentivizing people to report other members of the community for violating new restrictions. Experts say this has worked in the past to erode trust and enable further authoritarianism.
Source: NPR
11/2/2022
"Black family members of the deceased were reportedly barred from witnessing the burials, as they were held under armed guard, away from their dead mothers, fathers, sons and daughters."
Source: The Atlantic
11/1/2022
by Erin Aubry Kaplan
For decades, the increasing Latino presence in previously Black neighborhoods in South Los Angeles has raised concerns about political representation and hopes for a cross-racial movement for a more just city. Recent leaked city councl tapes show things are far from settled.
Source: PBS News Hour
11/1/2022
The framers of the 1901 constitution were direct about their goal to maintain a government controlled by whites.
Source: The New Yorker
10/31/2022
Williamson County in suburban Nashville shows how the astroturf Mom's group erupted on the scene to challenge a popular and well-regarded social studies curriculum for elementary schools on the grounds that its civil rights lessons were "divisive."
Source: Vox
10/30/2022
Edward Blum is a longtime conservative legal activist who is leading lawsuits claiming that affirmative action in admissions violates the requirement that the constituiton be color-blind; whether there is any such principle is debatable. Includes insights from historians Hugh Davis Graham and Eddie R. Cole.
Source: UnHerd
10/28/2022
"It sold poorly and due to its troubling themes, Springsteen did not take it on tour. Nebraska was left to speak for itself. Today, exactly 40 years after its release, that voice is no less disquieting."
Source: Texas Tribune
10/30/2022
Evangelical megachurches are increasingly confident that they can directly intervene in political races, declaring one candidate "ordained" and another "demonic," without anyone doing anything about it.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10/31/2022
In Johnny Teague's narrative, Anne Frank asks whether Jews have failed to recognize the Messiah. He insists that his story does not claim Frank ever converted to Christianity.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/31/2022
From left, right and center, and from pundits and legal scholars, a roundup of analysis on the oral arguments in Supreme Court cases that could eliminate race-conscious admissions policies.
Source: The Atlantic
10/31/2022
by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
The former President of the University of Michigan says that diversity in higher education remains a compelling reason to allow race as one factor in college admissions.
Source: New York Times
10/29/2022
“The point in returning the names is that we’re naming the victims,” said Yan Rachinsky, the chairman of Memorial’s board. “But the question inevitably arises: If there are victims of crime, then there are criminals, and there are reasons for the crime. These are no longer things that our authorities are ready to discuss.”
Source: New York Times
10/28/2022
by Linda Greenhouse
Neither Brown nor the 14th Amendment were driven by a belief in a "colorblind" Constitution; instead, they were rooted in the historically specific context of racial oppression. The plaintiffs in two cases before the court want to obscure that history, says veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
Source: Washington Post
11/1/2022
Artifacts trapped in glacial ice are valuable because they are preserved; for archaeologists, climate change means both glaciers and artifacts are at risk.
Source: New Statesman
10/26/2022
A popular book for young readers strips the Holocaust of its horror, and its victims of their Jewishness in favor of banal lessons about empathy and kindness.
Source: The New Republic
11/1/2022
A longitudinal study by the University of Maryland suggests that even looking back to the 1960s, the right has been much more likely to promote violence as an instrument of politics.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/27/2022
The vote of the representative body was 67-15. A faculty member of the search committee addressed the senate and denied any pressure to name Sasse.
Source: New York Times
10/25/2022
The Long Island town of Yaphank was eager to erase the memory of Camp Siegfried, which closed after the American entry into World War II. Playwright Bess Wohl wants to use it as a warning about the seductive potential of ideology.
