Collection

Wokeness, Social Justice, and Cancel Culture

From protest movements to battles in academia, policing, schooling, and free speech, the sensitivities of Jewish life in America and across the globe can be harbingers of broader societal change.

The New Gatekeepers

How the major institutions of American society all came to sing in the woke chorus, and what can be done about it

byMichael Lind

The American Soviet Mentality

Collective demonization invades our culture

byIzabella Tabarovsky

The WASP Roots of the Social Justice Movement

The ideology is nothing less than the Anglosphere’s first modern authoritarian political movement

byB. Duncan Moench

The Woke Meritocracy

How telling the right stories about overcoming oppression in the right way became a requirement for entering the elite credentialing system

byBlake Smith

All Wokeness, Social Justice, and Cancel Culture stories

Police photographs of Grigori Zinoviev, taken by the NKVD after his arrest, 1934

Death to Me!

‘The New York Times’ and the creepy personal and ideological logic of public confessions

byDavid Mikics

Stop Being Shocked

American liberalism is in danger from a new ideology—one with dangerous implications for Jews

byBari Weiss

Left Heretics and the New Media Collective

Campus Week: The one-party journalism system suffers no dissent from within. Here are some who do it anyway.

byJacob Siegel

The Burning of Minneapolis

Visiting the site of the American Golgotha reveals an ongoing catastrophe that seems unlikely to end anytime soon

byArmin Rosen

A political cartoon from 1883 aimed at wealthy businessmen Cyrus Field (1819-1892), Jay Gould (1836-1892), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), and Russell Sage (1816-1906). Laborers awash in a sea of hard times struggle to hold up the lumber, paper, and linen industries with low-wage jobs on their backs as the industrialists and their millions weigh them down.

Woke Inc.

A seemingly socially conscious corporate America is not a new phenomenon. It’s a revival of an old one.

byMichael Lind

Human Sacrifice and the Digital Business Model

Debates over free speech ignore the deeper problem: The tech monopolies that control social media have built their profit model on burnt offerings to the digital platform god

byGeoff Shullenberger

The Real Problem With Cancel Culture

It’s not about celebrities. It’s about us losing trust in each other.

byKat Rosenfield

100,000 Little Stalinists

‘The Tyranny of Virtue’ on campus and in the wider woke culture

byDavid Mikics

America’s White Saviors

White liberals are leading a ‘woke’ revolution that is transforming American politics and making Democrats increasingly uneasy with Jewish political power

byZach Goldberg

Is the Women’s March Melting Down?

Millions of women mobilized against gender inequality and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. But only four of them ended up at the top—and the consequences have been enormous.

byLeah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel