For the bookworms amongst us:

The Science of Evil: A Personal Review of Political Ponerology

<03/26/2022 Michael Rectenwald

https://mises.org/wire/science-evil-personal-review-political-ponerology

When I first encountered Political Ponerology, I had been struggling to understand just how totalitarian leftism had effectively taken over the United States of America. Ever since my encounters with the rabid social justice warriors as a professor at New York University—recounted in my book Springtime for Snowflakes—I began to note, with no little alarm, the totalitarian character of the contemporary Left. Then the emergence of “woke” ideology and its metastasis from academia into the entire social body set me on a mission to understand the rise of totalitarianism—because I believed, and still do, that “wokism” is totalitarian. Far from being “liberal” in the classical sense, woke ideology is akin to the Jacobinism that fueled the communist revolutions in Russia, China, and elsewhere. It aims to tear down the established order in its entirety, and to remake the world in its image of utopia.