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The rise of “soft totalitarianism”

TCT contributor Maier reviews Rod Dreher’s now book, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. Mr. Dreher argues that our political institutions and public consciousness are being transformed from the inside out, creating a comfortable servitude, a “soft totalitarianism,” run by a technocratic, progressive elite, and supported by Big Data and a compliant capitalism. [1]