Project 2025, Intellectual Freedom & Privacy

Abstract

Although Donald Trump disavowed Project 2025, as of late November 2024 he has named four people associated with the project to his administration, including Brendan Carr to head the Federal Communications Commission. Project 2025, a 900-page policy prescription written by the Heritage Foundation, calls for dismantling the federal Department of Education and “advancing education freedom” (322). The document specifically states that “parental rights” should be “co-equal to other fundamental rights—like free speech or the free exercise of religion” (343) and argues that the administration should work to pass a federal Parents’ Bill of Rights. The term “critical race theory” is used as a cudgel throughout the policy.