Billion-dollar losses at Walt Disney Company are generating angst among investors. What’s causing the decline? Lauren Smith suggests in Spiked that Disney’s deliberately chosen strategy of wokism is not resonating with its main audience. Viewers are growing sick of the preachy slop that fails to offer depth, compelling characters or apolitical and age-appropriate storylines.
Meghan Murphy reveals in Spiked the precipitous fall of transgender ideology in public esteem. According to Murphy, this has nudged many die-hard transgenderites to adopt a “moderate” stance with “nuanced views”. Murphy hopes this opportunistic shift will wake up even more people to the lies at the core of trans propaganda.
In City Journal, John Tierney laments the scientific community’s descent into partisan politics and propaganda. Tierney sees hope for scientific integrity and academic freedom, however: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Covid dissident Jay Bhattacharya for director of the very National Institutes of Health that colluded with social media to suppress Bhattacharya’s views throughout the pandemic.
Joel Kotkin in the American Mind reports on the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the left’s ranks. Quite simply, writes Kotkin, the left has betrayed the Jews, with so-called “progressives” now calling for the destruction of Israel and allying with Muslims who rally in the streets of Western cities promising “death to the Jews.”
In City Journal, Christopher F. Rufo unmasks the U.S. federal government’s prodigious spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Rufo details how a web of moralistically preening consulting firms have billed billions for things like training “on the brain science of inclusion” or “anti-racism analytics tools”, and how the DEI ideology – as bad as it always was – has degenerated into yet another money-grubbing racket.
Meghan Murphy reveals in Spiked the precipitous fall of transgender ideology in public esteem. According to Murphy, this has nudged many die-hard transgenderites to adopt a “moderate” stance with “nuanced views”. Murphy hopes this opportunistic shift will wake up even more people to the lies at the core of trans propaganda.
In City Journal, John Tierney laments the scientific community’s descent into partisan politics and propaganda. Tierney sees hope for scientific integrity and academic freedom, however: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Covid dissident Jay Bhattacharya for director of the very National Institutes of Health that colluded with social media to suppress Bhattacharya’s views throughout the pandemic.
Joel Kotkin in the American Mind reports on the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the left’s ranks. Quite simply, writes Kotkin, the left has betrayed the Jews, with so-called “progressives” now calling for the destruction of Israel and allying with Muslims who rally in the streets of Western cities promising “death to the Jews.”
In City Journal, Christopher F. Rufo unmasks the U.S. federal government’s prodigious spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Rufo details how a web of moralistically preening consulting firms have billed billions for things like training “on the brain science of inclusion” or “anti-racism analytics tools”, and how the DEI ideology – as bad as it always was – has degenerated into yet another money-grubbing racket.
