In 1995, my mother, Lynne Cheney, wrote a book titled Telling the Truth. She talked about the importance of teaching history and highlighted the dangers of political correctness in our educational institutions and elsewhere. At the time, political correctness was the term for what many today call wokeness. But my mother was not handling the issue in the divisive way people address wokeness today. She was tackling it historically and analytically, including by comparing political correctness with the orthodoxies found in societies that are not free.
