It’s time to panic: The Nazis are coming! Eugenics are back! Whiteness is everywhere! It’s the 1940s all over again and somehow the puritans and capitalism are to blame. Or maybe it’s just an ad for ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 20 episode of “Morning Joe.” When I was in law school, they often warned us about the dangers of a slippery slope, how one small action could set off a chain ...