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Professor of African American Studies at Princeton, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. in a TV studio.

Democrats Must Pick Fights with Woke Activists

Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.

Richard Hanania

12 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional

Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.

Gerfried Ambrosch

15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read

RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the Price

Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide

Jonathan Kay

21 Jul 2023 · 10 min read

Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using)

It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values

Jonathan Kay

25 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

Comparing Wokeness to Christianity Is an Insult to the Church

To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption.

Matthew Rowley

20 Feb 2023 · 8 min read

Don’t Use the W-Word

Trumpeting your wokeness—or anti-wokeness—won’t do anything to fix society’s problems.

Angel Eduardo

28 Jan 2023 · 5 min read

A Puritanical Assault on the English Language

Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it.

Andrew Doyle

6 Jan 2023 · 19 min read

Quillette Podcast #179: Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Survive Wokeness?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters.

Quillette

31 Jan 2022 · 1 min read

My APA Resignation

These are terrifying words. They’re also at best debatable, arguably simply untrue.

Christopher J. Ferguson

31 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex

The bigger problem was that its edict wasn’t about diversity at all. It was about corporate opportunism: seizing an already popular social value and prominently emblazoning it with the Goldman Sachs logo.

Vivek Ramaswamy

29 Sep 2021 · 7 min read

PODCAST 102: Rob Henderson on Why Upper Middle Class Whites Have Gone Woke

Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. (Click here to listen to the podcast.) Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports Cancel Culture

Quillette / Rob Henderson

31 Jul 2020 · 1 min read

Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist

It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.

Janet Mackay

5 Feb 2020 · 8 min read