Most of what Trump does is consistent with being a fascist dictator, and almost nothing suggests he isn’t. Let us count the ways… — Trump supporters can justify almost any single one of Trump’s actions (he didn’t mean it, I like his tax policy, Hillary did it first, etc., etc.), so we need to look at the sum total of his actions to answer the key, overall question: Is Trump a tyrant? Conveniently gathered…

You're asking about the intellectual history of critical theory (basically the history of the new woke movement) here. It's a long history, and I do know some of it. This covers the last 5-10 years specifically around race: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Group_Identity_Theory_as_Reverse_Cognitive_Behavioral_Therapy More broadly, in the beginning there was Marxism. This was a…

Definitions vary, but whatever definition you use, the word is needed to discuss what is happening right now — Like pornography, we may not be able to define “woke” but we sure do know it when we see it. It’s an important word, because there’s no other way to describe (succinctly) an important trend happening in society right now. Words evolve and have many meanings Many words have alternate meanings, or meanings that differ based…

We are ill-equipped in the West to understand how the Russians influence discourse and divisions through their information-operations campaigns, and therefore we do not know what to look for or how to measure the impact. — Colby Hess's analysis of Russian disinformation is spot on in this piece: https://medium.com/politically-speaking/wokeism-maga-and-the-soviet-long-game-ba9b30e2f248 Many people are unimaginative about how the Russians create and exacerbate divisions in US society, and how good they must be at it by now.

The psychology of wokeness is to minimize and reframe shame by making shame a virtue — At first, it seems weird how happy “woke” people are to be put down or abused. They love being told they need to “do more work.” They love how flawed they are. White woke people love how “whiteness” is a problem. Male woke people embrace how “toxic” masculinity is. They…

Totally agree, Thomas. I was actually thinking about this in the car earlier today. We have what Bill Maher recently termed a "mono-focus" on race these days. Just engaging with reality here - this mono-focus has not been going well for us. I think it arises from elite universities, who…

Bigotry goes beyond race and gender. All group-based contempt is bigoted — Who do you despise? Republicans or Democrats? Christians, Muslims, or Atheists? “Zionists?” Billionaires? Southerners? Asians? I don’t mean which individual people, I mean which groups of people? Stereotyping any group is bigotry. Not just a racial, religious, gender, or ethnic group. As the dictionary defines the word, bigots are “prejudiced…

DeSantis goes too far in his attacks on the AP African American Studies course, as always. But this article assumes a lot and flat out mis-states many things. First, DeSantis did not (technically) alter or reject the course. The real authority here is the College Board, who changed the curriculum…

Identity politics destroys existing institutions, but then replaces them with versions that are more racist instead of less — I certainly appreciate this commenter’s frustration with how the world is, and I understand that she thinks white people are to blame. But two things that I think won't work in her approach. First is that making this a racial issue increases racism. Even anti-white racism, which seems harmless, normalizes…