Oklahoma tries to ban APUSH (& possibly others AP classes)

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Denying the reality of separation of Church and State in early America is pseudohistory. Ironically it is because Americans at the time of the American Revolution were largely religious (Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Quakers, Congregationalists, and reformed Church (Dutch and Huguenot practice were identical) were not going to accept the authority of any one of them. (Catholics were a tiny minority until the mass settlement of Irish and German Catholics in the mid-19th century). Anyone who disbelieves in the separation of Church and State need ask which religious heritage other than their own they want determining how they are to think. How many Americans would like their religious heritage to be defined by Kiryas Yoel (a rigidly-orthodox Jewish community)?

Criticism of capitalism is inevitable because it never achieves all that it promises (unless one begins or gets filthy rich).  Any college student who gets no introduction to Karl Marx might have an excessively rosy view of capitalism at its harshest. "It's fine so long as the bad stuff happens to others" is a weak defense of capitalism. 

What good can we say of slavery, the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow practice, the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, and McCarthyism?

America is in flux. It will be until it fossilizes the rot of a gangrenous order.