POLITICS

The Cynic’s Guide to Wokeness

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Most attacks on wokeness come from the right. To conservatives, the woke are dangerous because they’re sincerely committed to bad ideas—make every decision based on identity instead of merit, defund the police, speak in insufferable jargon to top it off—and push them through their positions in HR departments and government bureaucracies throughout the country. Columbia

Are We There Yet?

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In 2001, Anthony Hopkins celebrated his newly acquired American citizenship by taking a 3,000-mile road trip across the Midwest. It wasn’t his first cross-country voyage. He’d taken many such excursions in the past, motivated in large part by the insights they provided into the American soul. “I think it’s wonderful meeting people who run America,

Australia May Not Get AUKUS Subs Under Alternative Plan Presented to Congress

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Lack of shipbuilding capacity and Australia’s refusal to unquestioningly back the US in regional conflicts are among reasons AUKUS might not happen. The United States may not deliver the three to five nuclear-propelled Virginia-class submarines promised under the AUKUS deal but instead seek to operate up to eight of its vessels out of Australian ports.