Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes that topics as diverse as solar eclipses and self-driving cars are “neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.” According to a database he released this week, as NPR reports, just over $2 billion of the National Science Foundation’s $9 billion budget went to “left-wing ideological crusades masked as ‘academic research.’” It’s an absurd claim that highlights president Donald Trump’s baffling attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the US government, which has involved stamping out mentions of women’s achievements, threatening federal workers with “severe consequences” for failing to tattle on their peers, and even directing NASA employees to take down pride flags. Further illustrating the emptiness of these pointless attacks on science, the “woke” database includes things ranging from the benign to the downright puzzling, like solar eclipse experiments and research on how to make self-driving vehicles safer. The explanation may be just as dumb as you’d expect. The self-driving vehicle study’s description predicts that advanced driving systems will “reduce mobility barriers for older generations or people with disabilities” — meaning the word …