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Los Angeles police officers take a knee with clergy and marchers at LAPD Headquarters during a demonstration demanding justice for George Floyd in Los Angeles on June 2, 2020. Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register via AP, File
Where’s Mao Zedong when you need him? The Great Helmsman had a highly developed taste for humilating his ideological opponents. He was particularly adept at forcing his victims to abase themselves by publicly confessing to assorted failures and “crimes” against the state.
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
