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Can the Great Awokening Succeed?
Can the Great Awokening Succeed? Wokeism is creating a future group of politically incorrect Trotskyites on a proverbial rendezvous with a Mexican ice pick, given that by birth they will never be woke enough for the new Stalinism.
Victor Davis Hanson | Apr. 12, 2021
How Did the Cancel Culture Become Dominant So Quickly?
How Did the Cancel Culture Become Dominant So Quickly?
John C. Goodman | Apr. 6, 2021
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