Still from “Activate,” a six-part documentary series that appeared on the National Geographic Channel.The Blowback Dividends of Woke Capitalism
BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 09: A display is seen near a logo outside the NBA flagship retail store in Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)Dave Chappelle and the Woke Conscience
Still of Dave Chappelle in his Sticks and Stones (Image: Netflix).The Illogic of Cultural Appropriation
Criticisms about cultural appropriation turn out to be inconsistent with essential aspects of the greatness of a free society.
Two Brazilian men wearing traditional native American feather headbands pose for photos at a Carnival street party in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 15, 2017 (Image: lazyllama/shutterstock.com).The “Pro Bono” Hoax: Part II
(stock.adobe.com)The Pro Bono Docket and the Legal Blowhards Who Exploit It: Part I
stock.adobe.comThe Declaration and Identity Politics
The Declaration of Independence (Mike Flippo/Shutterstock.com).The War on Satire, Brought to You by Social Justice Warriors
Kunal Mehta/Shutterstock.comUp in Arms About a Coat of Arms
Harvard Law School, in abject surrender to student activists, is about to change its escutcheon because its design was derived from that of Isaac Royall, Jr., who endowed the first chair at the school. Royall’s father made the family fortune from slave plantations in the West Indies and Massachusetts, a fortune that was therefore tainted (as Balzac said that all great fortunes are).
Can Social Justice Be Rescued?
The book Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is isn’t what you think it is. The dust jacket of the latest from Michael Novak (with coauthors Paul Adams and Elizabeth Shaw) promises to rescue the term from “its ideological captors” by clarifying “the true meaning of social justice.”
