This is one time Texas can't keep its weird political landscape to itself: What happens in Texas doesn't stay in Texas. When it comes to textbooks, what happens in this state is of national concern. Nothing less than the education of our nation's next generation of citizens is at stake.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Scott Thurman captures not only the fear and anti-intellectual resentment and insecurity that govern the dictations of the far right, but also the rampant unchecked egotism.
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SalonAndrew O'Hehir
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
One of the great things about Scott Thurman's film - a low-budget but thoroughly watchable documentary, largely funded on Kickstarter – is that it helped me see the world from McLeroy's point of view, which I might previously have considered impossible.
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Time OutKeith Uhlich
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Such a feature-length bludgeoning, even in the service of basic social and scientific literacy, is truly discomfiting.