Teach how to think, not what to think

“The U.S. Service Academies and other defense academic institutions shall teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered late last month. Unfortunately, it is not entirely clear what the secretary meant by this.The order appears in a Jan. 29 memo that is largely devoted to eradicating the Pentagon’s diversity-equity-inclusion efforts. In their eagerness to comply, some agencies have