Activist Radio: The Mark Harrington Show

How to Deal with an Increasingly Totalitarian America | Rod Dreher   On this episode of The Mark Harrington Show, Mark speaks with Rod Dreher, Senior Editor of The American Conservative and author of "The Benedict Option" and "Live Not by Lies." In his book, Live Not by Lies, Dreher speaks of the rise of soft totalitarianism brought on by identity politics which marginalizes Christians and other dissenters. Dreher also writes about "woke capitalism," which is when major corporations sign on to culturally progressive causes. In a capitalist society like ours, corporations have been much more important than the state in mainstreaming progressive values. Corporations now censor opinions, and technology is bringing us closer to a surveillance state. This kind of system is what every American high school student read about in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.  Order Live Not by Lies here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com Despite Live Not by Lies being written and released before the COVID outbreak, Dreher has some obs