Commentary We have often had occasion to remark on the melancholy state of affairs that the advance of political correctness has precipitated for the practice of satire. Satire depends for its effect on a certain distance between reality and the joke. That distance describes the space in which both humor and moral recognition may congregate….
Dispatches From the Asylum: On Satire in the Age of Political Correctness
For the Record: ‘Antipathy Toward Others’ Is Not a Tenet of Christianity!
Commentary Over Easter, The American Catholic published a photographic illustration of just how much things can change in a single lifetime. In the photo, enormous crosses formed by lighted windows blazed above New York’s skyline as part of the 1956 Easter display in Manhattan’s financial district. This was Easter in the year of my tenth…
Wealthy and Woke
Commentary Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check in. Yet most Americans believe voting is a…
Wokeness: ‘It’s About the Money’
Commentary I’m beginning to think H. L. Mencken’s famous apothegm—“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money”—would make a good Eleventh Commandment or at least something to bear in mind on almost any occasion. Wokeness—no matter what “justice” veneer you put on it—is about the money. It’s about taking the money…
In Deep Crisis, US Will Nonetheless Recover
Commentary It is now clear that as the avalanche of wokeness and national self-hate that has crashed over the restraining walls of the American mythos, one pillar of traditional American democracy after another has fallen. The whole process was so sudden and has come on so unexpectedly that it is still difficult to appreciate the…
Major League Baseball Strikes Out
Commentary The opening of the Major League Baseball (MLB) season is always a welcome event. It heralds the approach of summer in the northern states. It provides the hope of a fresh start for fans of teams that fell short of success last season. More than anything else, it’s a sign of normalcy: Baseball is…
The Coalition of the Un-Woke
Commentary The metastasis of the “woke” ideology is the most comprehensive threat facing the American republic. It is appallingly totalitarian, insofar as the woke wield the levers of cancel culture to suppress all dissident speech, root out all wrongthink and achieve by sheer force an intellectual homogeneity. It is outright racist, insofar as intersectionality and…
Labor MP Warns Party of Straying Too Far Down the ‘Wokeness’ Path
April 1, 2021
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Tania Mihailuk, a New South Wales (NSW) state MP has warned that the left-leaning Labor Party needs to steer away from “wokeness” and back to the centre, otherwise it risks losing the support of Sydney’s extensive multicultural and religious communities. The remarks follow the release of the NSW Parliament’s Joint Select Committee report into how…
The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America
Commentary There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently. 1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had…
‘Wokeism Is the Next or the New Secular Religion’: Young Asian-American Conservative
Asian-American conservative Kangmin Lee said on Sunday that “wokeism” is becoming a new secular religion that gives people a sense of purpose in the absence of traditional religious belief. “Wokeism is the next or the new secular religion.” Kangmin Lee told Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” at CPAC 2021 on Feb….
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