In his 2023 Netflix comedy special, Selective Outrage, Chris Rock identified one of the core contradictions of the social-justice era: “Everybody’s full of shit,” Rock said, including in the category ...
Pundits these days often declare that wokeness has had its moment, that 2020 and 2021 were its peak and it’s now an increasingly distant memory. This is shortsighted. Wokeness is still with us, as ...
Progressive ideas around race, gender, and immigration are under scrutiny by both the Republican-controlled federal government and Democrats chastened by the loss of the 2024 election. In this modern ...
New College of Florida in Sarasota. By Seán Kinane/WMNF News (Apr. 2023). New College of Florida will offer a course studying “wokeness” in January. The class is called “The ‘Woke’ Movement” and be ...
Wokeness is in retreat, but its stench will be hard to eliminate. Consider the curious case of the bone-headed “Nasdaq diversity rules” — edicts by the stock market giant to force every company that ...
A liberal Florida college has reinstated a course on “wokeness,” which describes the movement as “a kind of cult,” despite backlash from lefty students — defending it as “never more relevant than ...
A local group focused on helping people find common ground across political and cultural differences will present its first community debate this weekend centered around the question, “Does wokeness ...
Pete Hegseth is an outspoken critic of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, blaming them for some of the recruitment challenges the military has faced in recent years. He denounced “woke” ...
The View host Whoopi Goldberg tore into Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt over a comment she made denigrating “wokeness” — which Goldberg says is what gave Leavitt her job at the ...
President Donald Trump proclaimed that "wokeness is gone" during his joint address to Congress Tuesday night. Speaking to a bipartisan crowd in the U.S. Capitol building, Trump touted his ...