Civic education has emerged as a major front in the bitter clash spilling over into many domains between left and right in America. Since the civic-education battles revolve around the nation’s core principles and fundamental character, they may prove the decisive front.

You wouldn’t expect a conservative Republican like former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour to turn into a facsimile of Chairman Xi as muzzler of dissent and monitor of communications, but something of the sort has reared its head at the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which Barbour chairs.

Abortion at the Supreme Court, Big Tech regulation in Florida, a showdown in Belarus, and the debate over paying college athletes.

As Americans sober up, will they reject the frenzy that took the country over the cliff during the most unhinged year in American history?