The 1960s Hippie doctrine of ‘make love, not war’ was supposed to be the cure for fascism. Sexual repression, they said, made men fascist. If society allowed fascist men to engage in group sex or gay activities, they’d become liberals, too.

That was the idea. What happened next was the rise of a moral totalitarianism never seen before.

As director Paul Verhoeven remarked about the famous ‘shower scene’ in Starship Troopers (1997), leftists believe that right-wingers (conservatives, fascists, and ...