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Tenured Professor Critical of Identity Politics Fired by University

A tenured professor known for speaking out against “wokeism” and identity politics was fired by her university just before Christmas, which she says happened amid a campaign to have her terminated because of her views. Frances Widdowson, an associate professor in the department of economics, justice, and policy studies at Mount Royal University (MRU) in…


In Scotland, They’ll Take the Woke Road

DUNDEE, Scotland—The online class on gender, feminism, and the law was underway when Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old student and mother of two, introduced a note of unwoke contention into the discussion. “We were talking about equal rights for women, and I said I don’t believe a trans woman is really a woman,” said Keogh, then…


School Boards Should Reject Woke Diversity

Commentary If you are looking for a growth industry to create a long-term career, become an equity officer or a diversity consultant. There are plenty of organizations that want to check off the “diversity” box when hiring new employees. This is particularly true in school boards. For example, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has…


The Alliance of Big Government, Big Business, and Woke Dogma

In an interview with Jan Jekielek on “American Thought Leaders,” Vivek Ramaswamy outlined “the unholy alliance of big government, corporations, and woke dogma.” He also addressed the ongoing intrusion of communist China into the United States through its promotion of “wokeism.” Ramaswamy is the founder of several successful companies, including Roivant Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company,…


Wokeism Undermining Operation of Military, Army Officer Says

Adherents of the woke political undercurrents of the progressive left have climbed their way into the military leadership, eroding its combat readiness through a culture of political correctness, according to an active-duty Army officer. Working in various high-profile roles within the organization, the officer has observed over the past decade the military getting increasingly politicized….


How Stakeholder Capitalism Helps China and Harms the US

Commentary If there’s one thing progressives love doing, it’s apologizing. They apologize for being racist, for white privilege, for polluting the planet; in short, they apologize for anything and everything. The word sorry, like the U.S. dollar, continues to lose its purchasing power. If everyone is sorry, then no one is sorry. Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of…


China Is Using Wokeism to Erode American Democracy, Author Says

The communist regime in China is using “wokeism” as a geopolitical tool to undermine U.S. democracy, said Vivek Ramaswamy, author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.” “They [China] are using that to divide us, to use that as a kink in our armor to divide us from within, by getting corporations to…


The Vaccine Mandate Assault on the Common Good

Commentary As President Joe Biden launches via executive order a sweeping vaccine mandate for all federal government workers, and now a brand-new initiative for private sector mandates, the issue has once again risen to the forefront of the national dialogue. United Airlines, for example, recently became the first U.S. airline to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for…


Wokeism and Communism: Two Sides of the Same Cultish Coin

Commentary Communism is, in many ways, a cult, and a dangerous one at that. In China, to this day, the cult of Mao still carries significant weight. Across the country, young people are still drawn to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a vicious cult led by Xi Jinping. Meanwhile in America, wokeism has formed into…


Stephen Harper: Western Democracies Need to Fight Far-Left ‘Wokeism’ Amid Economic Recovery

As vaccination rates in Canada and the United States increase, governments should focus on economic recovery but at the same time be wary of the far-left elements in society that seek to tear down Western democracies, says former prime minster Stephen Harper. “This crisis really has been unique and very different and more complicated than…