Posts Tagged civic ignorance

Excuse Me??

That whole “alternate universe” thing just keeps getting more bizarre. Sandy Rios, formerly of Concerned Women for America, is now the host of a radio talk show for the American Family Association. Both organizations have a decidedly different slant on reality, but as Ed Brayton notes in a recent post from “Dispatches from the Culture [...]

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File Under: Just Shoot Me Now

The brazen David Barton strikes again. If we did even a reasonable job of civics education in this country, people like Barton would be objects of laughter–as they so richly deserve. That said, this latest bit of historical revisionism is so self-evidently ridiculous, the only people who would fall for it would be those who [...]

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Filling the Void

I know I keep harping on the damage caused by Americans’ ignorance of our most basic history and philosophy, but the evidence just keeps piling up. I’m pasting, below, a recent essay by noted religious historian Martin Marty, in which he weighs in on David Barton–a charlatan who has made a living by manufacturing the [...]

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