Category: woke

Eric Kaufmann: ‘We’re in a Cultural Emergency…We Need to start Confronting the Cultural Disaster that is Unfolding’ | British Thought Leaders

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, to discuss the culture wars and where society will end up if it continues on the destructive path towards wokeness. Professor Kaufmann is a political scientist and the author of numerous books examining the impact of ideological and…


West Virginia AG Morrisey Takes on the Woke and the Swamp

Commentary As attorney general of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey has been a scourge of the administrative state, combatting what he perceives to be federal government overreach into the life and commerce of the Mountaineer State. On April 4, Morrisey announced that he is joining a crowded field seeking the Republican nomination in West Virginia’s 2024 gubernatorial race….


The House GOP Effort to Defund—Not Police, but Wokeness

News Analysis Through executive orders and budget requests, the Biden administration has sought to embed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles across the entirety of the federal government—and in turn to touch the lives of every American. Now members of the Republican House majority, who see this whole-of-government effort as a woke assault on America and its core values, are…


Companies Go Woke, Consumers Fight Back With Their Wallets

As corporate culture goes woke, conservative Americans have punched back. Thanks to organizations like Consumers Research, which examines the actions of corporations and alerts customers if companies go woke, consumers can support businesses that respect and share their values. For example, Bud Light has recently experienced a loss in sales due to its transgender collaboration….


Conservative Alternative to Amazon Growing ‘Exponentially’ as Customers Ditch Woke Companies, Says PublicSq CEO

PublicSq, the conservative Amazon alternative that promises to connect “freedom-loving Americans” with businesses that align with their values, has been gaining traction among consumers seeking an alternative to the Jeff Bezos-owned online retailer, according to its CEO. “It has grown exponentially,” the San Diego-based company’s CEO and founder Michael Seifert told Fox News on April 17….


Is the Bud Light Disaster a Turning Point?

Commentary There’s still no word of apology from Anheuser-Busch over their despicable ad campaign for Bud Light that featured a preposterous man mimicking women and somehow achieving notoriety within woke cultural circles. This has promoted a massive boycott not only of this beer but all beers made by the company, and a real opportunity for…


Loyal Budweiser Light Drinkers Switch Brews Over Transgender Controversy

CORNVILLE, Ariz.—Whatever alcoholic beverage Scott Bradshaw was nursing in a tall glass while seated at the Old Corral Bar in Cornville, Arizona, it wasn’t Budweiser Light. “Bud Light” is not on Bradshaw’s list of favorite lower-calorie brews these days—not after Anheuser-Busch InBev Brewery mixed business and “woke” politics in promoting a transgender brand ambassador. The…


Loyal Bud Light Drinkers Switch Brews Over Transgender Controversy

CORNVILLE, Ariz.—Whatever alcoholic beverage Scott Bradshaw was nursing in a tall glass while seated at the Old Corral Bar in Cornville, Arizona, it wasn’t Bud Light. “Bud Light” is not on Bradshaw’s list of favorite lower-calorie brews these days—not after Anheuser-Busch InBev Brewery mixed business and “woke” politics in promoting a transgender brand ambassador. The…


The Only Way Out Is Through

Commentary In 2017, my friend Rod Dreher published his popular book, “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.” Dreher’s basic prescription, already intimately familiar to Orthodox Jews, is a localist focus on the cohesive formation of tight-knit, virtuous, religious communities as the best way of enduring the cultural onslaught of progressivism…


‘Go Woke, Go Broke’

“Woke ideology was heavily subsidized because of this fundamental economic dislocation that was built into the system starting in 2008. And now, 17 years later, the whole world’s gone insane because woke ideology has taken over corporate America and education,” says Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of The Brownstone Institute and the senior economics columnist for…