Tag: critical theory

Bruce Pardy: The Four Doctrines of the Apocalypse: Critical Theory and Our Compromised Institutions

Commentary The following is an excerpt by Bruce Pardy from “The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled,” a new book of essays by 20 Canadian critical thinkers edited by Aristotle Foundation president Mark Milke. Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in…


Stanford Updates Guide To Canceling ‘Harmful Language’ Including Words Like ‘Man’ And ‘American’

Stanford University administrators published a guide to “harmful language” that calls for the elimination of words including “man” and “American.” The university created an index of forbidden words that it plans on eliminating from its websites and computer code, with a list of alternative terms to replace them with. Stanford published in May what it calls…


Political Correctness a Form of Language Control Aiming to Undermine Traditional Western Values: New Book on Wokeism

While political correctness may disguise as a form of politeness and civility, it’s a type of language control and groupthink now dominating the Western world, an Australian educator and commentator Kevin Donneally argues in his latest book “The Dictionary of Woke”, published in September. Donneally, one of Australia’s leading conservative public intellectuals, said that political…


Analysis: Deep-Rooted Marxism in American Education Corrupting Youth—With Sheri Few

We explore the deep root of Marxism in American education. At the same time, is a deep transformation taking place in American education? Parents are fighting back against critical race theory (CRT) being taught in classrooms. But it’s worth exploring where this all started, of communism in education: where teachers are either tools of brainwashing…


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…


People Are Seeing Through Holes in Woke Ideology: Critical Theory Expert

Wokal Distance, an expert in postmodernism and critical theory and a visiting fellow at the Center for Renewing America, believes that woke ideology will destroy itself because it is not grounded in truth, but rather seeks power. The man who posts explanatory threads on social media under the pseudonym Wokal Distance sat down for an interview with Jan Jekeilek, host of…


PART 2: Wokal Distance: How Woke Ideologues Rig the Rules of Debate

In our previous episode with Wokal Distance, released on February 10th, Wokal Distance explained the underpinnings of woke ideology, including its assertions that there is no absolute truth, and that all claims to truth are warped by power. Now in part two, he breaks down the concept of intersectionality and how woke ideologues rig the…


Wokal Distance: The Campaign Against Joe Rogan and the Basis of Woke Ideology

“The notion of truth and objectivity is beginning to disappear.” In this episode, we sit down with Wokal Distance, an expert in postmodernism and critical theory and a visiting fellow at the Center for Renewing America. We break down the underpinnings of woke ideology and the current campaign to cancel Joe Rogan. “Think of postmodernism…


‘My Duty as a Parent’: Inside the Fight to Remove Sexualized Content From School Libraries

Something on television caught the attention of Stacy Langton, a mother of six living in northern Virginia, when she was cooking dinner for her family in mid-September 2021. “Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom; write an X-rated Disney scenario,” the TV news segment showed prompts given to students of a writing class…


COVID Is the Virus. Wokeness Is the Disease

Commentary “Willfully blind and recklessly misleading.” Those are just two of the aspersions that law professors have levelled at the Free North Declaration, a call to arms to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach. Launched on Nov. 12 and profiled recently in the Epoch Times by Lisa Bildy (one of its…