It's Friday, October 31, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and event from a Christian worldview.

Dana Goldstein of the New York Times wrote an article recently entitled, How Politics is Changing the

way history is taught.

Okay?

So that's a headline is supposed to get your attention.

I think it should.

I think, however, the interesting thing is that someone could think that politics wouldn't

change the way history is taught.

So this is a great opportunity for us to be reminded of the place of history in the Christian

worldview and how Christians should think about history.

And that just means history as a discipline of trying to understand and interpret the past,

to record the past, and to learn from it. All right. So here's the argument in the article.

Quote, in the Trump era, history and civics education are under a microscope. Okay, so let's just

talk about the background.

The educational establishment has been accustomed to decades upon decades in which there was

basically no political oversight. And the inmates have been running the asylum. That's the bottom

mind. And so ideological agendas are just rampant throughout the world of education. And that is perhaps most

centered in places like the education schools on American university campuses, but also just throughout

the entirety of the modern educational experiment. And that includes the vast majority of

those who are on the production, the knowledge production side, the policing side of

public education in America. So all right, the reporter here tells us, quote, several major

curriculum publishers have withdrawn products from the market, while others have found that

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