Spelling Out the Problem with W-o-k-e-n-e-s-s
John McWhorter takes on the present infatuation with wokeness and shows the real harm it is doing to our social fabric.
John McWhorter takes on the present infatuation with wokeness and shows the real harm it is doing to our social fabric.
For all of the political "reforms" being tossed about, the truth is that government is slowly strangling the life out of our society.
Gloria Steinem declared, "The personal is political." Today, politics has reached into family life and even procreation itself, an unhappy trend for unhappy people.
American and European political elites seem to be wanting the Russia-Ukraine war to be fought to the last Ukranian and have done nothing to bring peace. It's time for a change.
We like to think of the "deep state" as a conspiratorial entity. In reality, the term describes much of what the federal government does in broad daylight.
When the Soviet Union collapsed more than thirty years ago, US and European political elites sought to isolate and threaten Russia. The result has been war, destruction, and death, none of it necessary.
What often passes as charity today is little more than progressive billionaires trying to force the Great Reset on unwilling subjects.
Public health agencies tend to be treated like authoritative sacred cows. In reality, they have politicized health policies to the point where they really are a health hazard.
Forty years ago, American politicians claimed that Japanese economic success was due to government economic planning. Unfortunately, the myth of industrial policy never seems to die, no matter how many times it is discredited.
Yuval Noah Harari, who teaches history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, denies that free will exists. However, to deny free will is to deny human action itself.