She has a doctorate, is former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a longtime fellow of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where Bork and Gingrich also hang their policy hats. In the mid-90s she published Telling the Truth, a scholarly book of sociopolitical criticism about creeping political correctness and moral relativism. Dr. Cheney has also quite a few children's books in print about conservative themes.
"America is in the middle of a vast experiment, says Lynne V. Cheney, testing whether a society can thrive when more and more of its citizens doubt the importance of truth - or even whether such a thing as truth exists. Schoolchildren are being taught that the ancient Egyptians flew in gliders. University students learn that science is a white male conspiracy. In fields ranging from history to law, scholars and practitioners alike argue that their goal is not truth but the advancement of politically useful views. Journalists fall into the same pattern when they disdain objectivity and use the news to advance their viewpoints, as do psychologists who help their patients "recover" memories of events that never happened. Public figures tell us one thing today and another tomorrow and blithely accuse those who point out their inconsistencies of an "excess of literalism." In our postmodern world, everything has become relative. "Truth," according to a film at the Whitney Biennial, has become nothing more than "what is believed"..."