The Textbook Battle in Tennessee

Sitting in a pew at the Cedarview Methodist Church in Kingsport, I was chatting with Jennie Wilson, grandmother of two of the children in the Hawkins County school system who, through a trial this past July, won the right to opt out of
reading classes that cover material their parents consider religiously offensive. Wilson was telling me about the growing “globalist” conspiracy, which aims at establishing an atheistic one-world government. Some of the details were funny: she...