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TUE · 2026-07-14 · 12:30 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0714-92953
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Why is a Trump commission attacking Nietzsche, Foucault and Sartre?

President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report titled "Americans' First Freedom" last month, coinciding with the US's 250th anniversary. The commission, established in May of the previous year, aims to address what the current administration and the religious right perceive as systemic religious discrimination due to societal secularization.

Alex LoSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-07-14 · 12:30 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min
Why is a Trump commission attacking Nietzsche, Foucault and Sartre?
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President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report titled "Americans' First Freedom" last month, coinciding with the US's 250th anniversary. The commission, established in May of the previous year, aims to address what the current administration and the religious right perceive as systemic religious discrimination due to societal secularization. The report proposes a reinterpretation of the separation of church and state and suggests measures to counter secularization in education, government, the military, employment, and public healthcare. It also recommends establishing hotlines for reporting perceived religious discrimination by authority figures.

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The report suggests setting up hotlines to report people in authority who “discriminate” against religious liberty.

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The report advocates a different understanding of the separation of church and state.

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The commission released a draft report titled, “Americans’ First Freedom” last month.

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US President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission in May last year.

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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 rectifying. The report advocates a different understanding of the separation of church and state, and it makes various proposals to reverse entrenched secularisation in education, government, the military, employment and public healthcare. It also suggests setting up hotlines to rat out people in positions of authority who “discriminate” against people’s religious liberty.
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