The Rise of Religious Nationalism

The conversation addresses the troubling rise of religious nationalism in the United States, which has been methodically infiltrating public education. This movement promotes the introduction of partisan religious curricula into public schools, blurring the lines of church and state. One driving incident involves a program targeting young students in a Californian public school that aims to enforce a particular Christian ideology as the norm. This outreach is supported by a strategic legal framework that aims to erode the constitutional separation of church and state, raising alarms about the future of educational integrity and pluralism.