A new project called The Civics Alliance aspires to unite Americans in the effort to promote authentic civics education that teaches the U.S. founding principles and documents, key events of American history, the structure of our self-governing federal republic, and the spirit of liberty and tolerance. The National Association of Scholars-sponsored project comes after President Joe Biden rescinded President Donald Trump’s executive order banning Marxist-invented Critical Race Theory in federal training, and disbanded Trump’s 1776 Commission that sought to move American education away from a radical curriculum that unduly emphasized race-related injustices of the past. NAS describes itself as “a network of scholars and citizens united by a commitment to academic freedom, disinterested scholarship, and excellence in American higher education.” The project is in part a response to the proposed “Civics Secures Democracy Act,” a radical piece of legislation that was introduced in Congress earlier this month. That measure would …