And American citizens are still allowing themselves to be manipulated by their fears and pitted one against the other. All of these themes can be found in The Twilight Zone.

Is "Idiocracy," the 2006 sci-fi comedy set in an utterly dysfunctional nation 500 years in the future, really a vision of 21st century America?

In his controversial but surprisingly popular 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, the philosopher Allan Bloom lamented what he saw to be the decline of intellectual inquiry in America ...

The problem with Idiocracy screenings 10 years on isn’t that liberals will pack into fancy theaters to blow off some cathartic steam. It’s that it’s the wrong dystopia for understanding ...

American multinationals such as Microsoft are establishing research and development facilities across the developing world. Indians and Chinese were once willing to put up with any humiliation for ...

Idiocracy was still wrong, damn it, just not in the direction I thought it was. Incredible as the fact may be: Mike Judge took far too generous a view of boobus Americanus.

Almost every aspect of American life today, including the job sector, is now subject to this kind of heightened scrutiny and ham-fisted control.

But even if we escape becoming a Trumpian autocracy, we may still be sliding toward an American idiocracy. Matt Robison is a writer, podcast host, and former congressional staffer.

I have had my faith in Congress restored by the bipartisan—yes, I said bipartisan—effort to end TikTok's reign as the primary tool of American idiocracy.

We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom.