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Thomas Frank: don’t mess with the Texas Board of Ed.
The Kansas Board of Education is, of course, famous for debating the teaching of evolution in public schools. As recently as 2005, the Board decreed that schools must include Creationism or Intelligent Design in their science curriculum– only to be overruled again in 2007. (…)
Common ground on evolution?
Robert Wright, in a fascinating essay in today’s New York Times, Charles Darwin channels his inner Barack Obama and looks for common ground on the conflict between believers in Creationism/ Intelligent Design and the mainstream scientific community.
Kansas Populism, then and now
Thomas Frank, in his column in today’s Wall Street Journal, calls the billions of dollars in Wall Street bonuses an outrage, and refers back to, yes, his home state of Kansas and the Populist movement which took the state by storm in the 1890s. (…)