Wyoming students aren’t allowed to get a degree in philosophy.
Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy. The University of Wyoming will be the only R1 institution, the only state flagship university, and one of two land-grant universities that do not offer a B.A. in Philosophy.
It is unclear what the justification for this decision is.
It’s not unclear at all. Wyoming is a very Republican state, and the people who run the government there are doofuses who’ve never taken a philosophy course or even thought about philosophy. Ignorance breeds ignorance.
Yeah, let’s get rid of critical thinking tools that inevitably connect to every human pursuit. Since when does science, technology, engineering, and mathematics require logic or epistemology?
How much more factual evidence do people need before they accept there is a magat xtian terrorist war on education?
As a person with a BA in Philosophy, I can say that it has never been terribly useful to me in any jobs I’ve had…at least not obviously so. And, with two PhDs in Philosophy we were developing an “ontology” for structured product knowledge and a knowledge graph about those products. Not philosophy in any usually sense I think.
That said, I think my Philosophy degree offered me a lot of flexibility in the various jobs I had in the tech industry including early on as a QA lead for system software development, technical and end user content development, and finally, a taxinomic classification of product info.
MAGA nominee in key House race says schools shouldn’t teach history.
Scarizona is so full of magat crap!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/24/800074405/elections/arizona-first-district-jay-freely-history-censorship/ by Emily Singer
“They talk about how bad this country is,” Feely said in a speech after winning the GOP nomination. “They continually talk about slavery and the things that happened in the past instead of talking about the greatness of this country and where we can go.”
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deleted Pentagon webpages that spoke about the heroism of minorities in the military.
I know, he didn’t literally say ‘don’t teach history’. But, it’s obvious he just wants to limit it to a twisted, waspy, pollyanna-ish view of this country and ignore the gritty reality of its history.
The philosopher’s toolkit, logic, fuzzy logic, reason, science.