Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats
@adamlaats.bsky.social
US Historian at Binghamton U. Columbo fan. Books about schools, religion, conservatism. Now writing about the roots of US public schools, c. 1790-1860. adamlaats.net
Kind of changes the whole "Grinch on ICE" vibe....
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Kind of changes the whole "Grinch on ICE" vibe....
Haha, yeah it kinda hurt my relationship with my mother, who assumed I was not getting a job at Harvard as a personal slight to her.
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Haha, yeah it kinda hurt my relationship with my mother, who assumed I was not getting a job at Harvard as a personal slight to her.
Yes! Thank you!! That's the one.
It resonates so strongly with all of us who had to turn down a job at Yale ... for love. 😂
It resonates so strongly with all of us who had to turn down a job at Yale ... for love. 😂
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes! Thank you!! That's the one.
It resonates so strongly with all of us who had to turn down a job at Yale ... for love. 😂
It resonates so strongly with all of us who had to turn down a job at Yale ... for love. 😂
Ass-coveting is gonna skyrocket in Texas.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Ass-coveting is gonna skyrocket in Texas.
Looks like the link is broken?
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Looks like the link is broken?
It was a huge theme in the 20th century. People like Max Rafferty, Bill Bennett, and Norma Gabler offered a string of definitions of "traditional" learning.
Organizations, too, like the Klan, the DAR, and the American Legion.
I looked at them in the Other School Reformers:
Organizations, too, like the Klan, the DAR, and the American Legion.
I looked at them in the Other School Reformers:
The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education
Harvard University Press, 2015 Surprised by all the violence and anger about schools? Don’t be. As long as there have been public schools, they have been central parts of America’s ince…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It was a huge theme in the 20th century. People like Max Rafferty, Bill Bennett, and Norma Gabler offered a string of definitions of "traditional" learning.
Organizations, too, like the Klan, the DAR, and the American Legion.
I looked at them in the Other School Reformers:
Organizations, too, like the Klan, the DAR, and the American Legion.
I looked at them in the Other School Reformers:
Thank you!
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Thank you!
The whole Phoenix shtick is so patently Bill Bennett redux. I'm just waiting for Kevin Roberts to be busted in a casino.
(Here's Bennett in 1986 telling everyone else to be a moral exemplar.)
(Here's Bennett in 1986 telling everyone else to be a moral exemplar.)
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The whole Phoenix shtick is so patently Bill Bennett redux. I'm just waiting for Kevin Roberts to be busted in a casino.
(Here's Bennett in 1986 telling everyone else to be a moral exemplar.)
(Here's Bennett in 1986 telling everyone else to be a moral exemplar.)
Right? My hunch is that PBS fell into the "good conservative" trap. I can't wait to read this one:
Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus: 9780375502347 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“A magnificent achievement—a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America’s premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century.”—Max Boot, author of...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Right? My hunch is that PBS fell into the "good conservative" trap. I can't wait to read this one: