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December 12, 2022
Charlotte Kilpatrick
The Anti-Woke Right Is Losing Its Religion
As conservatives increasingly turn to secular culture-war outrages to fire up their base, it would seem that God is no longer their co-pilot.
November 28, 2022
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John Semley
The Improbable Site of Conservatives’ Latest Backlash Against “Wokeness”
How election deniers, covid skeptics, and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator are disrupting the upstate New York retreat for the elites.
November 8, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Cards Were Always Stacked Against Democrats
Whatever happens on Tuesday, be suspicious of tidy narratives about the midterm elections.
March 1, 2022
Laura Jedeed
Partying All Night With the Anti-Woke Right at CPAC
Young conservatives can’t decide what the new “cancer” of liberalism is, exactly. But they are determined to cure it.
August 16, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Far Right Thinks Wokeness Is Why America Lost in Afghanistan
Their bottomless culture-war obsessions have made a mess of the withdrawal debate.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Dan Crenshaw’s Paranoid Delusions of a “Woke” Military
Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.
April 16, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Big Business Is a Reliable Friend of the Republican Party
Right-wing populists are declaring war on “woke” corporations, but in the end, these alleged foes all want the same thing: GOP rule.
April 9, 2021
Alex Pareene
The Case for More Canceling
As long as conservatives are obsessed with Dr. Seuss and “woke capital,” they’ll be too distracted to wage genuinely harmful culture wars.
April 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Delta and Coca-Cola Won’t Save Voting Rights in Georgia
Belated half-measures can’t undo years of corporate campaign donations and other influence-peddling that financed Republican voter suppression.
February 9, 2021
Alex Shephard
Can We Stop Obsessing Over Every Personnel Decision Made by
The New York Times
?
Using isolated H.R. moves at the paper of record, such as the recent departure of Donald McNeil, as parables for an entire industry has its limits.
December 8, 2020
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
Beyond the Great Awokening
Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing
July 15, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Self-Cancellation of Bari Weiss
Like much of her writing, the former New York Times editor’s resignation letter is long on accusation and thin on evidence.
November 25, 2019
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Ryu Spaeth
The Strange Liberal Backlash to Woke Culture
Why Meghan Daum, Bret Easton Ellis, and Wesley Yang reject social justice movements on the left
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