“Just Cut a Small Piece of Cake, and Give Me the Rest”

Wealth and the DeVos Educational Agenda, Part 1b

Thomas Hobbes on the left, John Calvin on the right (collage by the author, from public domain paintings)

Introduction

This multi-part analysis of the educational agenda of Betsy DeVos began as a simple rant. I knew that the Secretary of Education had been raised as a Dutch Calvinist in the Christian Reformed Church, and I prepared to paint her as just another conservative trying to force her…