Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Wokery

  • The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet

    I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in…

  • Left and Right: Morally Equivalent?

    Leftist evil-doers are becoming ever more brazen in 'outing' themselves. I hand off to Hinderaker: My opinion of leftists is so low that I am hard to disappoint. But I admit to being shocked by the reaction of many leftists and liberals to the Gazan invasion of Israel. In many instances, they feel no obligation…

  • The Politicization of Medicine

    Nothing is safe from politicization by leftists.  And you are still a Democrat? WTF is wrong with you? You geezers in particular need to wake up. This is not the party of Jack Kennedy.  Over at Instapundit: NYC – Dr. Dana Diab is an ER physician at Lenox Hill (@lenoxhill). Dina Diab took to Instagram…

  • Rod Dreher on Leftism

    Here: What a clarifying moment this is in the West. We have all seen the jaw-dropping alacrity with which so many leftists, especially within the academy, have rushed to defend the Hamas storm troopers. If you think this is merely about Israel and Hamas, you need to wake up. The people who are celebrating the…

  • Robert Paul Wollf on Benjamin Netanyahu

    Substack latest.

  • In Celebration of Indigenous Peoples

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  • Cuellar Carjacked

    Poetic justice. Henry Cuellar is a Democrat. Democrats are leftists. Leftists have an exceedingly casual attitude toward criminal behavior. It's really no big deal to them. Cuellar's main complaint? "They stole my sushi." If, for whatever reason, you like crime, then I advise you to vote Democrat early and often. Related: Leftist activist and do-gooder…

  • White Flight and Racism

    Does racism explain white flight? Here is an interview with Jack Cashill. Excerpts: Your book challenges the conventional “white flight” narrative. In brief, what were whites fleeing, if not black Americans moving into their neighborhoods? I got the book’s title from a childhood friend, the last guy to leave our block. When I asked him…

  • Mom versus School Board

    Here In case you missed it, here is a NYC mommy with a rather saltier tongue.

  • The End of Liberty is Nigh: The Digital Pound and Cancel Culture

    And to add insult to injury, irony to outrage, the end of liberty is being ushered in by the mother country.  Here: The digital pound would be a new type of money issued by the Bank of England for everyone to use for day-to-day spending. You would be able to use it in-store or online…

  • New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve

    They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-controlled craphole. Of course, some cannot leave for various reasons. I feel sorry for them. But they should have done more to prevent their city from being taken over by leftist scum,…

  • New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve

    They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-controlled craphole. Of course, some cannot leave for various reasons. I feel sorry for them. But they should have done more to prevent their city from being taken over by leftist scum,…

  • Rod Dreher on the Ben Op and the Bon Op

    One of the few free ones. Excerpt: “The Benedict Option is not available to us; it is either the Boniface Option or destruction,” he writes. “You cannot run and hide from Trashworld. Our only option is to despise it and to fight back.” Leaving aside this inaccurate caricature of the Ben Op, what does Isker…

  • Another Day, Another Outrage

    Biden DOJ sues SpaceX for following the law. Another example of 'lawfare,' the use of the law to undermine the rule of law.  Should 'asylum seekers' and 'refugees' be given the rights of citizens when they are neither, but are economic migrants who have entered the country illegally? Obviously not, unless you are a hate-America…

  • Wokery as Metastatic Managerialism

    This article by the Swedish conservative Malcom Kyeyune from  2022 will enrich your understanding of wokery or wokeness. But first I record an epiphany I recently experienced. I was puzzling over why Anheuser-Busch would so egregiously violate the sensibilities of their Bud Lite drinkers by using the effete and epicene Dylan Mulvaney as poster boy…