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After another shimmering genre-blending release, 2021’s “Blue Weekend,” and now “The Clearing,” it’s almost a decade later, and the band is even harder to codify.

Though the recurrent phrase “citizen of the United States” had strong nationalist overtones, perhaps the framers did not mean to codify a one-size-fits-all approach.

This is vastly different from the traditional museological approach of codifying that order and paying tribute.

The compact codifies much of the conservative vision for higher education, seeking to rein in campuses that the right perceives as liberal, quick to squelch conservative viewpoints and favoring traditionally marginalized groups.

This Trumpist fulfillment is largely enabled by a supine Republican Congress and a Supreme Court that is seemingly eager to codify it.