GS, it’s true that no entity should ever become complacent. But bio-and other tech companies are moving and starting here because of the favorable business climate, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. The voters last fall authorized a resolution to fund the upgrade of a bunch of our universities to top-tier research level. We’re not going to stop teaching evolution in the schools.

And McLeroy is right that the history books need some course correction. They’ve been too tilted to the left, and they need to go back the other way, at least a bit. My son’s textbook isn’t too bad, but I’ve drummed it to him in gruesome detail that the communists and other statists were by far the worst mass killers in history, and that communism is not compatible with life on Earth. His book isn’t strong enough on that subject.