The Thin Line between Appalling Ignorance and The Onion

No one is entirely sure if it began as a joke, but someone tweeted ahead of the New Year about how “cool” it was that the United States would be celebrating its 2014th birthday. Huffington Post published a very brief post that included the tweet with no editorial comment. A slew of people then posted…

Yes, Let’s Protect the Kids from Bullshit History and Science

This is a follow-up to John K. Wilson’s Posts on Mitch Daniels’ misunderstanding of academic freedom. Mitch Daniels’ and the Purdue Board of Trustees’ public defenses of his intention as governor of Indiana to prohibit the use of Howard Zinn’s histories in Indiana public schools focus largely, again, on Zinn’s supposed deficiencies as a historian.…