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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Observercast

Rightwingers Want To Kill The Humanities

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The far-out right wing’s latest political ploy takes extremism to the extreme. Escalating their divisive series of “culture wars” [banning books, suppressing women’s rights, whitewashing history, demonizing teachers, etc.], their current idea is to declare war on ideas! Specifically, they’re going after state university programs that teach creative arts and social studies, including history, languages, music, civics, literature, economics, theology and other courses in the humanities that explore ideas, foster free thinking and expand enlightenment. […]

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.