Deconstructing the War on Reality

Frank Turek and Phoenix Hayes’s The War on Reality 2026 as a popularnncatalyst and relocates that critique within philosophy of science, historiography, and text-immanent biblical theology. It first exposes the self-referential collapse of postmodern relativism and strong scientism, which cannot account for the non-empirical preconditions of knowledge. It then evaluates identity-based conflict frameworks associated with Critical Theory, acknowledging both the contested label “Cultural Marxism” and the genuine theoretical lineage from class analysis to cultural hegemony, while contrasting that taxonomy with biblical impartiality Lev 19 15; Rom 2 11 . Recovering the Hebraicnncognitive environment—truth as ʾemet (reliability-in-relation) and knowledge as enacted yadaʿ—the argument anchors human dignity in an endowed ontological imago Dei and locates the space-time…

Public discourse in much of the contemporary West is increasingly a dispute not merely over policy but over whether there is a shared world to argue about. Claims once treated as ordinary features of common life—the existence of mind-independent truth, the binary of human biological sex, the fixity of past events, and the binding character of moral obligation—are frequently redescribed as oppressive constructs Turek & Hayes, 2026; Trueman, 2020; Copan, 2005 . Turek and Hayes 2026 name this posture a “war on reality”: the invitation to suppress empirical and rational data in favor of interior desire. The diagnosis is popular rather than technical, but it tracks a recognizable biblical pattern. Genesis 3 does not begin…