The CEO of NPR was previously the executive director of (the now severely compromised, though still somewhat useful) Wikipedia. Katherine Maher’s admission is an important data point–we don’t usually get it so clearly from the top in their own words. One after another, our most important sense-making institutions in the United States have abandoned their primary missions, incentivized by tax-funded government cut-outs. Their leadership has become power-mad, narcissistic and arrogant. They see you as a child and they are your self-appointed nanny. It is totalitarianism wrapped in well-coifed elitism. Their vision clashes with the vision of the Founders of this country.