Show notes: The Tablet editorial: Stop Being Shocked—Once and for AllOther good ones: Editorial, Disinfo Dictionary: A helpful guide to America’s new ministry of truthMichael Lind, The End of Progressive Intellectual Life“The centralized and authoritarian control of American progressivism by major foundations and the nonprofits that they fund, and the large media institutions, universities, corporations, and banks that disseminate the progressive party line, has made it impossible for there to be public intellectuals on the American center-left.” Blake Smith, The Woke MeritocracyHow telling the right stories about overcoming oppression in the right way became a requirement for entering the elite credentialing systemArmin Rosen, The Burning of Minneapolis