Critical thinking and investigative journalism are practically extinct in modern-day America. At the same time, public debate, government transparency, and the questioning of authority are all squelched, under the guise that they imperil the future of our representative republic. Long forgotten in today’s America are the words of Albert Einstein, who warned us that “unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Truly, we’ve become an unthinking, gullible, and ignorant people, willing to believe whatever we are told, without bothering to substantiate it for ourselves.

Nowhere is all of the above more incontrovertibly proven than in the transformation of our populace into sheeple during the...