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After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Apart, by John Daniel Davidson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Apart, by John Daniel Davidson

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The Declaration of Independence (event 1776, painted 1819). Public Domain

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, June 25, 2026

John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.

The crisis we face today is existential. Too many Americans, both native-born and naturalized, have been taught to despise their country.

If it sometimes seems like the American cultural mainstream is ignorant of the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States, or even hostile towards it, that’s because it is.

The story told about America’s founding by the corporate media, book publishers, libraries and other institutions is one in which the Christian faith, so central to our history and founding, is almost wholly absent.

I don’t mean that anecdotally. A recent report by conservative book publisher Brave Books analyzed more than 300 books across 25 reading lists curated by children’s publishers, public libraries, and other institutions for our country’s upcoming 250th anniversary. The report found that these lists contain zero titles that directly addressed religious liberty, faith, or the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States. …

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After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Apart, by John Daniel Davidson

GUEST OPINION: Margaret Sanger’s ‘Negro Project’ Nears Completion, by Walter B. Hoye II

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland: The SSPX: A Love Story

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, June 25, 2026

The crisis we face today is existential. Too many Americans, both native-born and naturalized, have been taught to despise their country.

If it sometimes seems like the American cultural mainstream is ignorant of the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States, or even hostile towards it, that’s because it is.

The story told about America’s founding by the corporate media, book publishers, libraries and other institutions is one in which the Christian faith, so central to our history and founding, is almost wholly absent.

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