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 ...

CU Boulder PhD candidate Benjamin VanDreew’s search for an answer to that question finds that Barbie is, book banning isn’t, and that female Democrats are more likely than male Democrats to be seen as ...

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“Woke.” You keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you think it means. A new survey shows that while most Americans think they know what “woke” means, they don’t actually have a firm ...

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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 ...