Tag: woke

The Pentagon Owns Its Recruiting Crisis

Commentary Replenishing the military ranks with qualified personnel is a perennial challenge. It’s no secret, though, that this year our armed forces are fighting uphill to recruit and retain talent. Most of the services are well behind their quotas. But the Army, our largest service, is having the hardest time enticing young Americans. That service…


Biden Administration Abandons Biology. What’s Next for Parents?

Commentary Lia Thomas was recently nominated as the NCAA “Woman of the Year.” Just one problem: Thomas is male. Yet neither the “progressive media” nor the Biden administration sees this as problematic. Thomas, a collegiate swimmer, declared to be a girl. The “woke” media wrapped him in praise when he exited the pool a Division…


Whatever Happened to Anthropology?

Commentary Once a field of serious academic research and study, anthropology has devolved into a virtue-signaling celebration of identity politics. The original goal of evidence-based understanding of mankind, its evolution, society, language, and culture, has long since been jettisoned in favor of advocacy for preferred populations and their particular sectoral interests. This devolution was launched…


How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?

Commentary The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This week, a new Quinnipiac University survey found that a paltry 31 percent of Americans approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job. Among political independents, that number is, somehow, considerably lower: 23…


Plutocratic Socialism and the Corruption of Democracy

This article is adapted from the book “Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class.” The American constitutional order assumes a populace of property owners, a middle class whose virtues provide the necessary ballast to support our republic. Our founders imagined strong communities, strong families, and independent citizens capable…


The Language Vandals

Commentary Language is a critical tool for communication among humans; we cry “watch out” when a speeding car hurtles toward a pedestrian. We also think of language as a cognitive tool for society at large, since all human learning is closely tied to how we learn and process language. Yet sometimes we forget language is also an important social and cultural…


The Chosen: Watch the Incredible Series About the Life of Jesus Christ

Commentary In today’s world of increasingly woke culture, most media groups have turned away from creating content that features the traditional and religious values upon which America was founded. Modern film and television productions often aim to bolster an agenda and force certain woke narratives upon the audience. And this fact fits in perfectly with…


Liberalism Has Failed. Now What?

“A conservative,” says Yoram Hazony, “considers national and religious traditions key to strengthening the nation and to maintaining it over time.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek talks with Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, president of Jerusalem’s Herzl Institute, and author of the new book “Conservatism: A Rediscovery.”…


Comics With Agendas

Marvel, Disney, Netflix, and Popeye: all these animated content makers are now pushing an agenda to begin to psychologically condition children. Rather than pushing a post-modern agenda through content avenues that would be dedicated to “woke entertainment,” they have cleverly chosen classic and modern comics to bring about a forced acceptance. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram,…


Religious Fervor Among the Woke

Commentary The woke have not only adopted the ideology of “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), and assertions such as “diversity is our strength” (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), but adhere to these ideas not so much as preferred guidelines or scientific hypotheses, but as religious truths not to be questioned. Any misguided or…