Famed philosopher and author G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “America is the only country ever founded on a creed.” Visiting a classroom today, however, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone teaching a unique American civic identity.

Rather, today’s schools use every identity except the American one as a lens to teach students. While students increasingly are unable to identify the branches of government, much less tell you their functions, they are more exposed to the dogmas of progressive identity politics, such as intersectionality and critical race theory, than ever before.