Knock me over with a feather. I once subscribed to Slate when it was an innovative commentary e-magazine genuinely striving to be independent and non-partisan. Then it went full woke and Trump Deranged, and managed to get on the EA blacklist. Frankly, I didn’t know it was still being published. But Hanna Stotland an independent educational consultant specializing in crisis management authoring her second Slate piece after seven years, delivered a superb analysis. You can read it here, but Slate still requires a subscription: if ayou have one, shoot me a copy and I’ll update this post. Some notable passages from the publicly available version deserve emphasis and should whet your curiosity: