For like Professor Bradford, Dr. Janowski sees an egalitarian fixation lying at the heart of modern America’s pathologies:
Most people who participate in pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-transgendered, anti-racist, protests are neither gay nor transgendered nor black; nor have most of them had abortions, or even the attributes that presuppose such a choice, and they are usually young. The question arises: Why do they participate in rallies that quite often, make them behave as if they lost their minds, or as if they saw the second coming of Christ? The answer is that they unleash their neurotic frustration, not because any specific decision limiting their freedom has been made, but because they believe that as long as there is still someone, somewhere, who refuses to believe without reservation in the idea of equality, their dream of a perfect egalitarian utopia is in danger.
What all those who have been “canceled” have in common, continues Janowski, is “a lack of unconditional commitment to equality. Any remark – however sound or factual – that questions equality meets with condemnation, rage, and hysteria.” The preceding insight alone makes Homo Americanus a noteworthy book.