Intellectual Cowardice and Pre-Censorship as the Expressway to Dictatorship

Ayn Rand identified the four characteristics of dictatorship: “one-party rule—executions without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses—the nationalization or expropriation of private property—and censorship.”*
The United States today is not there—yet. But it has elements of all four characteristics and speculation in some quarters says that a November election loss of our current

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