“The woke language, although it sounds like social justice, it’s essentially an abandonment of the most vulnerable people of color, the most vulnerable Americans, the downwardly mobile, in the name of a social justice war that literally puts money in the pockets of liberal elites.” At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, I sat…
Batya Ungar-Sargon: How Woke Media Abandoned the Working Class and Monetized Outrage
November 9, 2021
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Woke Ideology Is Dismantling Canada’s Self-Confidence as a Nation
Commentary In 2003, John Fonte, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, put forth an analysis of a new strain of progressive ideology that was just emerging in both domestic and international institutions. Calling it “transnational progressivism,” he described it as an ideology that prioritized the group over the individual and saw society as being a…
North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park on Communist Tyranny and ‘the Suicide of Western Civilization’
August 19, 2021
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“How do you fight to be free when you don’t know you’re a slave?” I sit down with North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, author of “In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom.” We discuss the North Korean regime’s brainwashing tactics, the parallels between her experiences in North Korea and what she…
Dave Rubin: A Growing Alliance Against the ‘Cult’ of Woke Ideology
July 27, 2021
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Woke ideology “infects every system that it’s in,” says Dave Rubin. “There’s no woke enough for the wokesters.” At the recent FreedomFest conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, we sat down with Rubin to discuss an alliance of free thinkers—from classical liberals to religious conservatives to libertarians. There’s an opportunity for diverse groups to unite…
Universities’ Social Justice Agenda Falsely Labels Whites and Christians as Oppressors, Says Professor
Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion is a top issue for many Canadian universities, but an outspoken professor says such tolerance is not extended to some students and professors who are “excluded with impunity” due to being perceived as oppressors. “When the universities say that they’re promoting diversity and inclusion, they really are not telling the…
Mao’s Cultural Revolution Has Arrived in America
Commentary From 1966 to 1976, Chinese society suffered under what we now call the Cultural Revolution. Although the Cultural Revolution (previously known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) was a multifaceted affair, it was undergirded by a vicious, fanatical campaign to destroy the “Four Olds.” In 1971, The New York Times described the campaign thusly:…
Inez Stepman: How Cancel Culture Conditions Society to Accept the Absurd
June 3, 2021
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History is being rewritten in schools across the country in line with the ideas of critical race theory. The Department of Education has proposed a rule to prioritize funding for education programs that incorporate the ideas of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi. This is just the tip…
Liberalism, the Me Decade, and Now
Commentary Who could have imagined that liberalism would be so fragile, so easily and righteously abandoned? I don’t mean the collapse of that cornerstone of American liberalism, the First Amendment, though the hounding of religion out of the public square, the rising mistrust of free speech, the decay of the press into a partisan club,…
Exclusive: ‘A Recipe for Cultural Suicide’—Peter Boghossian on Woke Ideology and the Case for Defunding Universities
April 7, 2021
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“We can’t just keep funding people who are playing in make-believe-land, cranking out information to inform public policy that’s completely divorced from reality. It’s a recipe for cultural suicide,” says Peter Boghossian, assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University and co-author of “How to Have Impossible Conversations.” A lifelong liberal and critic of former…
Peter Boghossian on Woke Education: ‘No Other Alternative Than to Defund the System’
The education system promoting “woke” ideology should no longer receive any government funding, said philosopher and pedagogist Peter Boghossian on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.” A professor at Portland State University, Boghossian is best known for co-authoring a series of satirical papers and publishing them in peer-reviewed academic journals to reveal how likely fake…
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