“Since the Covid-19 pandemic, school board elections around the country, once sleepy affairs, have been convulsed by America’s political and cultural divides. The teaching of racial justice. Gaza and Israel. Transgender rights,” the New York Times reports.“But very few of these battles have had the same mix of wealth, privilege and celebrity as the one that is going on in Beverly Hills, Calif. And this year, the campaign for two seats on the school board has devolved into an all-out political brawl.”