wokeism

Philanthropy
A Conversation with We Have Never Been Woke Author Musa al-Gharbi (Part 1 of 2)
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi talks to Michael E. Hartmann about symbolic capitalists in general and in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector in particular, how they exacerbate a lot of problems, and…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 28, 2025

Philanthropy
A Conversation with We Have Never Been Woke Author Musa Al-Gharbi (Part 2 of 2)
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi talks to Michael E. Hartmann about what happened in previous Great Awokenings, the choice before symbolic capitalists in the face of growing populist reaction against them, the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 28, 2025

Organization Trends
BEST OF 2024
Title IX Turned Upside Down
New Title IX regulations are the catalyst to undo the work the law initially aimed to protect. The proposed revisions to Title IX unveiled by the Biden Administration would include…
by Kali Fontanilla on December 31, 2024

Organization Trends
The New Left’s Total Victory in 2024
The New Left was still pretty “new” at the annual convention of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in June 1969. A direct ideological/historical line connects that long ago…
by Ken Braun on December 4, 2024

Labor Watch
A New Jim Crow Era: Blacks Only
We have learned from our Jim Crow Era mistakes in the past, right? Or are we seeing a resurgence of a new type of segregation, not just in the South…
by Kali Fontanilla on October 2, 2024

Labor Watch
A New Jim Crow Era: Modern Parallels
So-called progressives have resurrected all the elements of the Jim Crow Era. Special privileges and facilities for certain races, division by racial groups, harassment and browbeating of the new racial…
by Kali Fontanilla on October 2, 2024

Labor Watch
A New Jim Crow Era: Segregated Schools
In the classroom, the teachers unions are often behind modern segregation efforts. For example, the NEA is complaining that some states are starting to close segregated spaces on college campuses.
by Kali Fontanilla on October 2, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Three Axes, Two Buckets, and One Approach
There is a bizarre tendency of left-of-center causes to be promoted as a block even when they directly contradict each other. Some critics of institutional progressivism call this tendency “The…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Everything Leftism’s Rise
Everything Leftism is less a policy manifesto than a radical approach to issue analysis. It surged during the “Great Awokening” after the 2016 election and was given a nitrous-oxide boost…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Revealed by Hamas
Everything Leftism as an ideology jumped out of the political background and into the forefront after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. Almost immediately after the attacks, radical-left…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024