tyranny

Last year the Department of Defense described Ukraine’s fate as a battle between freedom and tyranny, and a defense of the rules-based international order.

And their authors knew what satirists from Charlie Chaplin to Stephen Colbert knew: When life throws tyranny at you, you have to scoff and push back.

His deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, has been even more forthright, declaring that the country is living under a judicial tyranny.

In dark times, education must do more than transmit knowledge; it must cultivate the political and moral imagination necessary to resist tyranny and build a future rooted in equality, dignity and shared responsibility.

“We must always say, ‘No,’ to tyranny and, ‘Yes,’ to truth.”