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Displaying all articles tagged:
Anti Wokeness
the right
Yesterday at 5:00 a.m.
Trump and MAGA Embrace Their Own Form of Wokeness
Ironically, the anti-woke right often seems focused on speech policing and group grievances.
By
Ross Barkan
screen time
Feb. 22, 2024
AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve
Google’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
By
John Herrman
the system
Aug. 12, 2023
Richard Hanania’s Chilling Normality
The revealing case of the anti-woke crusader.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice
early and often
July 31, 2023
DeSantis and Black Republicans Struggle Over Anti-Anti-Racism Movement
When he criticizes the Black Republican validators of the GOP’s racial righteousness as woke, DeSantis is playing with fire.
By
Ed Kilgore
artificial intelligence
Feb. 8, 2023
Fear Not, Conservatives, the Chatbot Won’t Turn Your Kid Woke
The American right’s problem isn’t that a talking robot is propagating liberal ideology.
By
Eric Levitz
politics
Dec. 15, 2021
DeSantis Enlists Litigious Parents for Anti-Woke Crusade
The governor is pushing a bill modeled after the Texas abortion law that would let parents sue districts that teach critical race theory.
By
Ed Kilgore
conservatism
July 6, 2021
It’s Tough to Prove You’re a ‘True Conservative’ in the Trump Era
Many of the old principles of hard-core conservatism are still obligatory for Republicans. And now they have to demonstrate loyalty to Trump, too.
By
Ed Kilgore
religion
June 16, 2021
How Critical Race Theory Overran the Southern Baptist Convention
The country’s largest Protestant denomination has been split by disagreements over the right wing’s newest bogeyman.
By
Chris Moody
culture wars
Apr. 27, 2021
You Don’t Have to Be Woke to Dislike Anti-Woke Democrats
James Carville’s surface-level analysis of Louisiana politics is the 2021 version of “hippie punching.”
By
Ed Kilgore
republicans
Mar. 31, 2021
The Rotten Core of Republican Appeals to the Working Class
Republicans are embracing the perilous tradition of producerism, offering working-class voters a mix of nativism, protectionism, and culture war.
By
Ed Kilgore