Commentary It’s undeniable that a crackdown on free speech is underway. Cancel culture’s body count continues to grow as more and more celebrities are crucified for not toeing the line of political correctness. Meanwhile, censorship runs rampant on college campuses as safe spaces are established and controversial speakers are shouted down. While these public tales…
Political Correctness Has Captured Big Business: ‘The Dictatorship of Woke Capital’ Author
March 12, 2021
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Author Stephen Soukup told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” that American big business had traditionally served as a free market-loving shield against the long, leftist march for control of the institutions of Western civilization, but that is now changing as businesses are on track to becoming an economically more powerful version of the “woke” college campus….
The Woke New University
Commentary Historically, universities were institutions devoted to the pursuit of truth. It was a search guided by Socratic humility and Pascal’s dictum that “we know too much to be skeptics and too little to be dogmatists.” Contrary to romantic myths, there was never a time of cozy accord in university life, and academic disputations are…
Free Speech Shouldn’t Just Be the Domain of Politicians
Commentary Australian governments have a long history of suppressing speech that is critical of the prevailing values of the ruling elites. Although the nation’s highest court has acknowledged an implied, constitutional freedom of “political communication” in the landmark legal cases of Nationwide News v Wills and Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth (1992), free speech…
It’s Not Politics, It’s Groupthink
March 4, 2021
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Commentary I was a liberal for most of my adult life, a liberal in the very liberal habitat of academia. When it came to Republicans and Democrats, progressive attitudes and conservative attitudes, I believed what everyone else believed, and that was one of the best parts of academic life. If I had a choice, I…
The Founders’ Understanding of Equality
Commentary “All people are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights.” — John Adams We have reached a time when each of us must make an effort to rediscover what Adams and Jefferson and the other Founders meant when they declared that we are all created equal. For over a century,…
The Logic of Political Correctness: Avoiding a Word Means Avoiding the Truth
Commentary The mills of political correctness grind exceeding fine, though unlike those of God or justice, they also grind rather fast. Nothing is too small or insignificant for them, nothing can hide from them for long. Recently I noticed an article in the online version of the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Pregnant…
How Wokeness Captured Big Business
Commentary During the 2019 shareholder season, Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, tabled a shareholder proposal at Amazon’s annual meeting. “Diversity in board composition is best achieved though highly qualified candidates with a wide range of skills, experience, beliefs, and board independence from management,” it read. Uncontroversial, one might…
Mad Magazine and Modern PC Humor
Commentary In 1971, Mad magazine published a parody of Barbara Streisand. Streisand, already a superstar who was active in liberal politics, became Buddy (the Yiddish word for grandmother) Strident in the film “On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Forever.” Streisand would not be touched by most comics today, which is…
Rugby Star Isreal Folau Cancelled for Second Time Due to Religious Views
The St. George Illawarra Dragons rugby league team have backflipped on signing star player Israel Folau after backlash from sponsors in response to controversy over Folau’s religious views which he expressed on social media in 2019. On Tuesday, the Dragons said they made inquiries to the National Rugby League (NRL) about pursuing the code-hopping, 31-year-old…
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