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. […]

Rightwingers Want To Kill The Humanities
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