There is a question haunting Black people in the President Donald Trump era like a soulless apparition in a low-rent horror movie: Were we every really woke, or did we merely think we were because a ...

Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The term “woke” originated in Black culture as awareness about racism and injustice, with roots traced to Marcus ...

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, by Musa al-Gharbi (Princeton, 432 pp., $35) What is a theory? In philosophy, we usually think of it as a set of propositions. These ...

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