You may be thoroughly disturbed by the weaponization of the federal government against political adversaries of the left. You may be shocked by a global social credit system unveiling itself before our eyes, or angered by the brazen collusion between the feds and the tech oligarchs. But are your kids and grandkids? It’s hard to say because the major youth publishers and librarian professionals are just as ideological and censorship-happy as Big Tech.

America’s youth are going through intense reeducation for eight hours a day in schools, and their smartphones finish the job for the rest of their waking hours. Like good subjects, young people fixate only on the issues the regime instructs them to care about. That’s why “The Hunger Games” is out and “The Handmaid’s Tale” is still in.

Government, Big Tech, and corporations are zeroing in. They know your every search, text, and purchase. They know your thoughts. They know you. Young people have been conditioned to believe this is normal. School libraries and phone screens aren’t going to show them anything different. And with the regime deciding the dystopian genre is out of ideological fashion, perhaps that means we’re living out one of the novels right now.