It was 1990. Communism was collapsing. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The West seemed to be facing a bright new future. After seventy years the world was going to embrace freedom

It wasn’t to be. Communism stayed alive in the universities, then colonized the wider culture. If somebody in America in 1990 told you that in 2024 we would have censorship, speech codes, sensitivity readers for novels and Christian bakers charged with crimes for following their conscience, you would not have believed him.

What is most tragic about the new totalitarianism is that it is being so widely embraced. If the communist Chinese were to invade tomorrow, I know people who would be lining the streets to greet our new slave masters. I’m sure you do as well. (Take a minute to list their names.)