Commentary What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse. The Nazi idea of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from physics to tank design. Soviet commissars…
Why Are Liberals So Miserable?
Commentary I’m the kind of guy Who never used to cry The world is treatin’ me bad Misery—The Beatles Replacing former President Donald Trump with President Joe Biden was supposed to bring joy to the land from sea to sea. We were going to be a united people at last. Every problem known to man…
Brent Bozell: Why There’s Hope for America’s Future, Despite Woke Wave
The United States has changed drastically over the past several decades. A less forgiving form of politics has become the norm, and a far-left has taken over the institutions with open hostility toward America’s founding and American values. Yet despite this, the future of this country is hopeful, and the writing on the wall suggests…
The Limits of Appeals to ‘Cancel Culture’
Commentary The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, has shocked the conscience of many who still cling to the idea of America as a liberal bastion. One of the woke ideology’s more prevalent symptoms, the phenomenon known as “cancel culture,” has perhaps been disproportionately effective in…
Trans Athletes, The New York Times, and the Ivy League
February 2, 2022
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Commentary How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women’s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people’s values and level of rationality. To recap, Will Thomas, a man who until two years ago was a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s swim team,…
Why Jordan Peterson Quit Academia
Commentary Woke supremacy has been taking a toll on Western civilization. The casualties of wokeness are too many and sundry to track. But we should not forget that wokeness was first germinated in higher education, from whence it metastasized to the wider social body. The academy is the cathedral pulpit from which the ideological dictates of the elite…
Woke Capital Won’t Save the Planet—But It Will Crash the Economy
Commentary Judged by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s latest letter, January 2022 might turn out to be the highwater mark of woke capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism is not “woke,” Fink says, because capitalism is driven by mutually beneficial relationships between businesses and their stakeholders. He’s right. What Fink describes is capitalism pure and simple, the stakeholder modifier adding…
Incorporating Woke Racial Ideology in State Courts Is a Terrible Idea, 2 Michigan Supreme Court Justices Argue
Race should not be a consideration in the judicial process, two conservative Michigan Supreme Court justices indicated as they objected to the court’s creation of a “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” commission that will demand judges be loyal to the woke left’s race-based ideological agenda. They were reacting to Administrative Order No. 2022-1, which on Jan….
Incorporating ‘Woke’ Racial Ideology in State Courts Is Terrible Idea, 2 Michigan Supreme Court Justices Argue
Race shouldn’t be a consideration in the judicial process, two conservative Michigan Supreme Court justices indicated as they objected to the court’s creation of a “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” commission that will demand judges be loyal to the “woke” left’s race-based ideological agenda. They were reacting to Administrative Order No. 2022-1, which, on Jan. 5,…
Where Wokism Is a Oui Bit Different
PARIS—Rachel Khan is a 45-year-old writer and actress, half-Gambian, half-Polish Jew born and educated in France, who was appointed by the mayor of Paris to be co-director of a cultural center called La Place, or The Place, dedicated to hip-hop music in France. Then she became a target of the wrath of “le wokisme,” French…
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