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Matthew 18 and the Public Square

December 2nd, 2022 | 22 min read

By Jonathan Tomes

We’ve heard this story dozens of times this year, the year before that one, going on for what feels like a generation: a schoolteacher is in the public discourse for apparently radicalizing students behind the backs of parents. Blast the trumpets, sharpen your rhetorical sticks, light your analytical torches, because a trusted educator has once again smuggled critical theory into the classroom, and, of course, written about it on Twitter.

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