Category: woke

The America I Loved Is Leaving

Commentary The America I grew up in is leaving, spiraling down into the gutter of history like the Roman Empire. My father was a career military enlisted master sergeant who believed in discipline, and structure. I was raised to clean my room and make my bed before leaving the house. I attended elementary school in…


The Numbers Are In on How Biden-Era Funding Is Skewing Scientific Research Ever-Wokeward

News analysis While pushing record spending for research and development, the Biden administration is working not just to advance science but also progressive ideology. In line with the administration’s “whole of government” commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), recent grants and requests for proposals from the National Science Foundation (NSF) encompass research that: Examines…


The Putrid Underbelly of Woke Capitalism

Commentary Corporate intrigue reached a fevered pitch on May 6, 2023, in Omaha, Nebraska, when a shareholder was arrested during the annual shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway. The shareholder challenged the affiliation of Warren Buffett with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bill Gates’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted in Florida for procuring a…


Will the Motion Picture Academy Take Richard Dreyfuss’s Advice?

Commentary Richard Dreyfuss criticized the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new Oscar rules in, as they say, no uncertain terms. The answer to my title question, however, is almost certainly “no bloody way”—even though Dreyfuss is an Oscar-winner himself and starred in several of the most financially successful films of all time. The…


How Business Embraces Marxism Under the Guise of Diversity

Commentary Disney higher-ups have been found admitting to indoctrinating children in radical sexual and gender ideology. The Carhartt work clothes company required its more than 3,000 employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19, despite conceding that “we are aware some of our associates do not support this policy.” Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., the third-largest soft drink…


The New Ugly Americans

Commentary The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors. But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest American military humiliation in…


[PREMIERING at 4 PM ET] Is Go Woke, Go Broke Actually True?

In today’s episode of Counterculture, Danielle explores whether going “woke” actually leads corporations to “go broke.” Danielle interviews Michael Seifert, the CEO of Public Square, a company seeking to rival Amazon. …


Is Go Woke, Go Broke Actually True?

In today’s episode of Counterculture, Danielle explores whether going “woke” actually leads corporations to “go broke.” Danielle interviews Michael Seifert, the CEO of Public Square, a company seeking to rival Amazon. …


Professors Remain Defiant as Conservative States Move to Restrict Tenure

Professors in North Carolina and other red states are lashing out against bills moving through Republican-led legislatures that would remove or weaken academic tenure and counter divisive political ideology. Hundreds of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) professors signed a letter published on April 24 in the university’s student newspaper opposing a tenure bill and…


How to Defeat the Woke Apparatus

Commentary Have you ever wondered what the woke industrial complex actually means? Over the past century, several iterations of Marxism have been rolled out in a number of nations. In recent years, the woke movement in America has displayed eerie similarities to the language and behaviors associated with these Marxist doctrines practiced in autocratic regimes….