Reflecting on Jacinda Ardern’s recent attack on free speech at the United Nations, British pundit Brendan O’Neill astutely declared that ‘tyranny has had a makeover’.
O’Neill warns us that we should no longer fear the ‘gruff cop dragging you into a cell’ for saying something dangerous but be on alert for authoritarianism disguised by a broad smile, polite voice, and the tell-tale ‘caring liberal head tilt’.
So where in fact did this ‘makeover’ occur? We need look no further than our universities.
The long march of the left through our institutions is now paying off handsomely as their graduates scale the commanding heights...
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