Tag: Woke
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Woke?
Introduction Language The argument about what woke means is part the American polical “culture war” in the early 21st century. The conservative writer Ross Douthat suggested in an article in the liberal New York Times, that “woke” marks a change to left wing “progressive” or modern values in American politics, and the understanding of liberalism:…
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Cancel Literature
How to Read Now Essays None of the essays in How to Read Now (2022) appear to have been previously published in print elsewhere. The author of the book of essays, Elaine Castillo, is the author of the novel America is Not the Heart (2018) 1No Wikipedia entry as of September 2022; for plot summary…
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Is NPR Woke?
In William Deresiewicz’s article in the online service UnHerd March 8, 2022 “Escaping American tribalism” he says that he started to listen to contrarian podcasts including Meghan Daum’s The Unspeakable in 2021, when he thought that American National Public Radio (“NPR”) has become partisan, on the “woke” side of the cultural divide: “Moral clarity” became…