Screw Luke Skywalker and his cult-of-personality buddies! Misguided revolutionaries, the lot of ’em! Yoda? A faux-Zen puppet poseur. Obi-Wan? An aging hippie activist clinging to silly proto-Marxist ideals.

The Empire, on the other hand — which “doesn’t want slaves or destruction or ‘evil.’ It wants order” — now that’s where it’s at, should you wish to run a galaxy properly.

Or at least, so writes The Weekly Standard’s Jonathan Last…