A Hollywood dystopian plotline cliché depicts large corporations as despotic exploiters controlling society and manipulating individuals to maximize profits. Think “Alien.” Think “Blade Runner.” Think “Robocop.” I have always thought that this villainous corporations plotline was a stretch. Free societies would never, I assumed, surrender personal liberty to the control of big business. But recent developments have convinced me that I was wrong. Big business is exerting increasing control over our lives and even establishing their own quasi-public policies. And, it turns out, this corporate hegemony isn’t so much about maximizing profits—as in the movie plots—as it is enforcing woke cultural and technocratic policy orthodoxies. Consider what happened in 2015 when Indiana passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The country’s most powerful corporations threatened to boycott the state, claiming that the law would sanction discrimination against the LGBT community. Worried about a vast loss of business opportunities, a second law …