Critical Race Theory in Public School
Critical race theory has become a flash point in the battle between parents and the teachers unions over control of public schools. Parents have forcefully voiced their concerns, prompting school…
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Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Three Woke Advantages
The most important fact about woke cancellation is that it rarely if ever arises from individual action. Organized institutions carry out the famous firings and relegations. “Internal mobs,” sometimes aided…
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Corporate America
Organized institutions carry out the famous firings and relegations. “Internal mobs,” sometimes aided and abetted by the labor unions, enforce the ideological line. Institutions that have not purged dissenters have…
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: The Left’s Ultimate Weapon
Even the institutional supports that the Left enjoy would not be enough to turn courage into casualties without powerful weapons. When action against a primary target is ineffective, woke groups…
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Forced by the Government
Where private action has not yet forced compliance with woke ideology, our adversaries bring the power of the state to bear. Unencumbered by notions of constitutional propriety, federalism, or local-state…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #199: Auditing Equity
While conservatives chafe under the threat of censorship and “de-platforming” by Big Tech companies, liberals are pressuring Congress to make the left-wing industry even more left wing through “equity audits,”…
“To Encourage the Others”: Making an Example of the NSBA
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) messed up big time. It sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on the Justice Department to investigate protesting parents under the PATRIOT…
Virginia Dodges Big Labor’s Bullets
This week, Virginia Republicans Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares swept the governorship and statewide row offices, and Republicans appear to have retaken control of the lower house of…
Criticizing Teachers Union Allies? You Might Be a “Domestic Terrorist.”
After a year of public school closures, mask mandates far stricter than in comparable international settings, and the exposure of radical-left social indoctrination in public school as endorsed by teachers…
Liberalism Drops Its Mask
Since the turn of the 20th century, progressivism and liberalism have been pushed for an increasingly massive state and burdensome government restrictions on personal conduct (outside the bedroom, at least)…