🗳️ Wokeism: A Force for Good or a Cultural Flashpoint? — Insights from Joseph Stiglitz In a recent interview in Madrid (June 11, 2025), Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz reflected on the political dynamics

Hi Everyone, We live in strange times. One of the strangest and most alarming aspects of our times is the extent and success of brainwashing. This appears to be occurring around the world. We have seen

Respecting an individuals race, sex, gender orientation is one thing, but what has become known as identity politics and ‘wokeism’ is quite another. Not only are these things hollow but they are being

No one denies that macroeconomic factors played a central role in the demise of SVB. But don’t discount the impact corporate wokeism had in creating a culture that emphasized DEI initiatives and goals

I had a great coaching call with Rob Hardy today and felt inspired to announce that I'm writing a book about wokeism and that I'd like to document the process as I go. I'm about three weeks in and it's

Dieser britishe Comedian erklärt dem Auditorium an der Oxford Universität warum Klima-Proteste keine Verbesserung bringen. Ich hoffe, die meisten hier sind des Englischen mächtig genug um das im original

So, the Norwegian law, that was passed in 2020, which is now being used to threaten two women with three years in prison for alleged "hate speech" actually says that the penalty can be up to

Seven hours. This is how long Lex Fridman had a conversation with Balaji Srinivasan. I have never heard or have knowledge who Srinivasan till I came across a 15 minute snippet of the full conversation,

Anything with this style of headline is absolutely awesome and I've got to go check it out apparently they've got beer guns BBQs red meat country music and more guns... Written and produced by a Navy SEAL

I was wrong in my original take on the Jordan Peterson/Sam Harris debate four years ago. At the time I sided with Harris but now realize Peterson was right. I thought it was condescending of Peterson to

I find the woke rhetoric about the USA being built on the backs of slaves to be partly baffling and partly revealing. Those statements run contrary to most economic scholarship. The idea that the USA became

This has turned into an issue that really has shown people's true colors. So, Will Smith is almost a half foot taller than Chris Rock. The woke people are claiming that Chris Rock was punching down and

It's been pretty well observed that the "woke" people take particular pride in saying, "I just don't get it." Every worldview that they find reprehensible is a view that they will virtue

Even Orwell’s own work, it seems, can be tossed down the memory hole nowadays. Consider how much of a woke, bitter, sadistic O’Brien you must be to make killing Orwell your life’s purpose! Whoever infiltrated

This is not always true among social movements, but it seems to usually be partly true. Hitler was a reaction to Lenin. But his reaction borrowed from that which it reacted against -- the notion of terror,

Valdary’s Theory of Enchantment elicits unusual openness, trust, and engagement from ideologically diverse observers. Chloé Valdary is the founder of Theory of Enchantment, a diversity and resilience training

What is it about the University of Wisconsin and race? The administration’s recent decision to move a rock from view because a journalist referred to it with the N-word almost 100 years ago was goofy enough.

We should think long and hard about the sort of society we want to be. I have written about why intent is crucial for forming the predictive models necessary for moral judgements. Making moral evaluations

Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They've simultaneously become more skeptical of Christian nationalism

Alice: Critical race theory is an outgrowth of critical theory. Critical legal studies was indeed popular in 1970s law schools, but critical theory didn't start there. This is, like, critical theory 101: