Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The rioting, looting, and arson that began in the summer of 2020 is finally sputtering out. The acrimony over the 2020 election is fading. Trump Derangement Syndrome became abstract when Donald Trump left office and was ostracized from social media. In…
Americans Remain Patriotic
Commentary Despite every effort of the Woke left and its allies in the left-wing news media, most Americans remain proud of our country and value patriotism. The greatest dangers facing the Democrats in 2022 and 2024 are their radical wing’s constant outbursts of public anti-Americanism and their “woke” efforts to coerce Americans into accepting ideas…
Waking Up From Wokeness
Commentary I cannot identify who exactly popularized the term “woke.” But I have had cause to wheel it out here and elsewhere on off for the last few years, generally when describing some absurd piece of academic or corporate or government obeisance to political correctness. Back in the Spring of 2019, I discovered the great…
Banks’ Climate Pledges Would Downgrade Non-Woke Businesses to 2nd-Tier Economy
New Analysis Businesses seeking financing may soon face a flurry of requirements that will, in effect, probe whether they are “woke” enough to be approved by financial institutions for loans or investment. While the requirements are presented as goodwill toward the downtrodden and the environment, they are underpinned by an ideology with totalitarian tendencies, according…
Banks’ Climate Pledges Would Downgrade Non-Woke Businesses to 2nd-Tier Economy, Experts Say
News Analysis Businesses seeking financing may soon face a flurry of requirements that will, in effect, determine whether they are “woke” enough to be approved by financial institutions for loans or investment. While the requirements are presented as goodwill toward the downtrodden and the environment, they are underpinned by an ideology with totalitarian tendencies, according…
How ‘Woke’ May Be Leading Us to Civil War
Commentary The other day I wrote that “Woke” was the new conformism. It is, of course, but I undersold it. It is much more than that and more dangerous. As Tal Bachmann notes at Steynonline, it is now our state religion, a state religion in a country that—constitutionally and for good reason—is not supposed to…
Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
Commentary What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives? Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. 1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination—anywhere….
Is Your ‘Woke Credit Score’ High Enough to Keep You From Being Denied Service by Major Corporations?
Commentary America is no longer a country being divided between conservative and progressive, between Republican and Democrat. It’s now being divided between the “woke” and the “non-woke.” And thus far, the woke appear to be gaining the upper hand. To be “woke” means to have been “awakened” to the awful truth about America, just how…
The Republican Party’s Woke Capital Awakening
Commentary One of the unfortunate vestiges of liberalism’s lingering influence upon American conservatism, and by extension the Republican Party that is conservatism’s default political vehicle, is the pervasive knee-jerk tendency to view government action as per se bad and private-sector action as per se good. This ideology, which might be called “market fundamentalism” or “private-sector…
Retirement Funds Bring Climate Change Pressure on Australia’s 200 Biggest Companies
Company directors deemed to be “moving too slowly” on climate change will face increased pressure from Australia’s largest retirement funds. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), comprised of 37 superannuation companies, will recommend members vote against the re-election of directors deemed to have fallen short on addressing climate change. ACSI will be communicating with…
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