Found 5296 Result(s)
Humanism and Wokism: Introduction
What comes to mind when you hear the term wokism? Activism countering injustices against minorities and the marginalized? Confrontation and cancellation, both public and private, of figures of the past and the present? A step forward for integration, inclusion, and acceptance? A step backward for academic and scientific research and discussion? How did a word …
Critical Race Theory and Woke Liberalism
The 1619 Project The publication of The 1619 Project is a good place to start for understanding the controversy over critical race theory and woke liberalism. The project started as an effort on the part of a group of African American writers for The New York Times to focus on the role that slavery has …
Waking from Wokism: Inoculating Ourselves against a Mind Virus
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most …
Excerpt from Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, by John McWhorter
In this book, John McWhorter argues that woke ideology has become a “religion” whose followers, the “Elect,” are failing in their efforts to reduce racism and are actually harming Black Americans. In the excerpt that follows, he offers an alternative approach.—The Editors Chapter 5: BEYOND “DISMANTLING STRUCTURES”: SAVING BLACK AMERICA FOR REAL IF YOU HAVE …
Repatriation and the First Amendment
Native American repatriations—the removal of human remains and artifacts from museums and universities and their subsequent reburial—may proceed faster in 2022 than in any preceding year. Yet repatriation hinders science because human remains and artifacts are used to reconstruct the past, which in turn helps us understand our common human experience. Factors that impact repatriation …
Top Secret: A Humanist Opera in One Act
Look around the world and you see religious fundamentalists vying for power. When they get it, they force everyone else to obey their rules. They are hard to stop. Today it is happening in the Middle East; a few centuries ago, it was in Europe. This opera tells the horrifying story of fundamentalists gaining total …
This article is available for free to all.‘Firsts’ of the Freethought Trail
The Freethought Trail (www.freethought-trail.org) is the Council for Secular Humanism’s online tribute to some 185 radical-reform history sites. All are located in west-central New York State (between Rochester and Rome; very roughly, within 120 miles of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum in Dresden, New York). The Trail focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth …
This article is available for free to all.Ozymandias in Moscow
It’s hard not to get disgusted with human beings sometimes. We seem to have such a talent for destroying everything, and then doing it all over again a few years later. It’s not enough that we’ve trashed the climate we depend on for survival, or that we’ve laid waste to countless species and their habitats …
The Orthodox Factor in Russia’s War on Ukraine
The religion factor is yet again getting insufficient attention when it comes to dark human affairs—in this case regarding the Russian assault on Ukraine. Early in the 1990s TV show Northern Exposure, set in Alaska, main character Dr. Joel Fleischman asks, “Why can’t the Russians find a way to govern themselves and let us off of …
This article is available for free to all.Zelenskyy of Ukraine: Hero or Fool?
When the Russians invaded Ukraine in February 2022, President Joe Biden offered to fly President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the country to a safe haven. When Zelenskyy replied, “I need ammunition, not a ride,” he instantly became the hero of the West, fighting for freedom and democracy against the despotism of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. It …