We are not yet living in a totalitarian state, but we are assuredly experiencing totalitarian microclimates. In the Epoch Times, Theodore Dalrymple argues that our freedoms are eroded not by government fiat but by monomaniacal pressure groups seeking to impose their views and their rules on society.
Like the Twitching of a Dissected Frog’s Legs
The second Trump Administration is succeeding magnificently in driving DEI/wokist policies and ideology out of the U.S. government and any organization receiving federal funds, writes Roger Kimball at American Greatness. From the FBI cutting ties to the extreme-left Southern Poverty Law Center to newly named Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring the U.S. military to be no place for “dudes in dresses”, Kimball proclaims – perhaps a tad prematurely – that DEI in government is dead but just doesn’t know it yet.