Last week, it emerged that the newly appointed head of America’s National Public Radio hates the U.S. Constitution. Speaking in 2021, she described the First Amendment which safeguards free speech as “a challenge.”
How could it be that the head of America’s public broadcasting service, established by an act of Congress, has such contempt for the US Constitution?
In her previous role running Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, Katherine Maher rejected a “free and open internet” as a guiding principle. Such principles are, in her words, a “white male Westernized construct,” according to reports.
Katherine Maher, reports say, supports efforts to censor opinions that do not conform with her leftist worldview. She spoke of the truth as being “a distraction.”
Sadly, Katherine Maher is not a one-off. She is typical of the sort of people now running many of America’s institutions, human resource departments, government agencies, and universities.
Ms. Maher’s social media posts might read like parody., but there is nothing funny about the way that people with Maher’s outlook and opinions are subverting America’s Founding principles, replacing them with grim leftist dogma that risks destroying America and the West.