In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I observe and give feedback following these practice lessons. Whether coincidence or a reflection of the times, this fall a good number of mock lessons covered the rise of totalitarianism.
The people of South Korea are rising up against outrageous government overreach from Covid vaccine mandates and restrictions, demonstrating their opposition to tyranny by gathering by the thousands in Seoul on Saturday to fight for their freedoms through peaceful but powerful protesting.
"Emergency detention order" would allow citizens to be involuntarily detained and put in isolation and quarantine at the discretion of state health authorities.