The proposed K-12 social studies curriculum standards developed by Hillsdale College emeritus professor William Morrisey and released for public review Monday include this little nugget for…
Posts tagged as “culture”
Tim Gebhart opened his blog A Progressive on the Prairie with this post titled “Dubya and Crew Did It” on September 9, 2003: They woke…
I’d been thinking about Stephen King’s plague novel The Stand since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In that novel, a flu virus engineered (unlike the real…
A friend is having trouble generating momentum on a reform campaign in South Dakota and asked me why that might be. I would suggest that…
The correspondent who got me thinking about how safe it is for folks to move to South Dakota offers some armchair sociology comparing the quality of…
I sometimes get tired of responding to every stupid thing Kristi Noem says. We know she’s being coached by Corey Lewandowski to provoke controversy to…
A South Dakota expatriate writes and asks if it is safe to move back to South Dakota. This expat credits a sensible, practical South Dakota…
Politico recaps how rapper Montero Lamar Hill—a.k.a. Lil Nas X—duped the easily distracted Governor Kristi Noem and the right-wing culture war machine into helping him…
South Dakota may be a great place to do business, but it seems workers don’t have the time to put out fires: As volunteers leave…
Vox‘s Alissa Wilkinson writes about the metaphorical meaning of the absence of the great American movie blockbuster from this awful year: From Indiana Jones to…