Why is a Trump commission attacking Nietzsche, Foucault and Sartre?

In May last year, US President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission. Last month, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding, it released a 224-page draft report titled, “Americans’ First Freedom”. I gather the current government and its key support base, the religious right, consider American society too secularised – to such an extent that it amounts to systemic religious discrimination. That’s what the commission is tasked with rectifyin...

By Alex Lo