"The movement away from personal responsibility and duty—that results in this very conspiratorial view of society in which, ...

Gray Rohrer of the news outlet Florida Politics was in the courtroom last week as staffers for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) were asked an interesting question: What does “woke” mean? The ...

By coming to a clear understanding of today’s woke activists, I do not mean achieving a firmer grasp of the Critical Race Theory they claim to believe in.

Now that critical race theory, Black Lives Matter and "woke" have been redefined as anti-white, which common word or phrase is next?

New polling shows that the right's efforts to redefine the term have had only limited effect — but that it's still a useful cudgel.

Certainly “woke” has a racial substrate, but the larger process here is the race-neutral euphemism treadmill, a term I am ripping off from Steven Pinker.

Similarly, while their theory makes ample room for metaphor (and they use plenty of great metaphors themselves), it fails to maintain the gap between metaphorical and literal uses of language.

It did famous harm to the Democrats in the latest election. The debate over nomenclature—w hy, critical race theory isn’t even taught in third grade!— is mischievous and meant to obscure.

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, by Musa al-Gharbi (Princeton, 432 pp., $35) What is a theory? In philosophy, we usually think of it as a set of propositions. These ...

Like many in this age of stupidity, I face an existential question: Am I woke? I assume not, because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t tried to ban me.

The Woke Left’s Primitive Economics Zero-sum thinking was adaptive in a world of tribal conflict, but isn’t in a modern society. By Paul H. Rubin Oct. 5, 2021 12:33 pm ET ...

Before He Takes On ‘Woke Capitalism,’ Ron DeSantis Should Read His Karl Marx Dec. 2, 2022 Mark Peterson/Redux Share full article ...