Trump is pushing a cultural counter-revolution by ordering institutions like the Smithsonian and national parks to purge “divisive” language, effectively whitewashing history to fit Christian nationalist ideology. While this reacts to past excesses of left-wing identity politics, Ronald A. Lindsay argues the real need is an honest, unbiased account of America’s history—warts and all.

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About the Author: Ronald A. Lindsay is the former president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, recent interim general counsel for CFI, and editor of Free Inquiry magazine.

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Ronald A. Lindsay critiques what he calls “Hallmark Catholicism,” exemplified by Jesuit astronomer Guy Consolmagno, whose vague, feel-good notion of God avoids conflict with science by reducing faith to metaphors and personal feelings. Lindsay argues that such nebulous theology, while comforting, is intellectually vacuous and ultimately shields traditional dogmas—like eternal damnation for nonbelievers—that remain central to the Catholic Church, even as atheists are dismissed as “intemperate” for pointing out the contradictions.

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About the Author: Ronald A. Lindsay is the former president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, recent interim general counsel for CFI, and editor of Free Inquiry magazine.

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Russell Blackford critiques the term “woke right,” arguing that while it draws a superficial analogy between progressive “wokeness” and certain right-wing behaviors, it obscures the Right’s long-standing history of intolerance, censorship, and identity-based politics.

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About the Author: Russell Blackford is a conjoint senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and a regular columnist for Free Inquiry. His latest book, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (2019), is published by Bloomsbury Academic.

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