Democrats Must Pick Fights with Woke Activists
Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.
Richard Hanania
· 5 min read
Wokeness
A collection of 12 posts
Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional
Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 12 min read
RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the Price
Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using)
It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Comparing Wokeness to Christianity Is an Insult to the Church
To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption.
Matthew Rowley
· 8 min read
Don’t Use the W-Word
Trumpeting your wokeness—or anti-wokeness—won’t do anything to fix society’s problems.
Angel Eduardo
· 5 min read
A Puritanical Assault on the English Language
Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it.
Andrew Doyle
· 19 min read
Quillette Podcast #179: Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Survive Wokeness?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters.
Quillette
· 1 min read
My APA Resignation
These are terrifying words. They’re also at best debatable, arguably simply untrue.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 10 min read
A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex
The bigger problem was that its edict wasn’t about diversity at all. It was about corporate opportunism: seizing an already popular social value and prominently emblazoning it with the Goldman Sachs logo.
Vivek Ramaswamy
· 7 min read
PODCAST 102: Rob Henderson on Why Upper Middle Class Whites Have Gone Woke
Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. (Click here to listen to the podcast.) Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports Cancel Culture
Quillette
· 1 min read
Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.
Janet Mackay
· 8 min read