The Covid pandemic has been a difficult time for all of us – except, of course, for documentary filmmakers, who seem to be living through the most booming of boom times. In recent months, two much-hyped HBO documentaries – Spike Lee’s‘NYC Epicenter: 9/11 – 2021 ½’and Nanfu Wang’s ‘In the …
Read More »Bank of America reportedly forces employees to embrace woke ideology – Now, that is a serious threat to democracy. Here’s why
The Bank of America’s radical re-education programme actually exhorts its staff to become “woke at work,” writes the City Journal, citing documents it obtained from a whistleblower. In practice, being woke at work means acting in accordance with the doctrine and practices promoted by campus social justice warriors, Black Lives …
Read More »Yes, the Taliban’s extreme, but I secretly welcome this defeat of the US ideology of globalism, liberalism and consumerism
As I write, blue- and pink-haired Silicon Valley tech workers are desperately scrambling to determine what is acceptable for us to say on social media about Afghanistan. “What can we permit them to think?” they are wondering. Perhaps they are waiting for their overlords to tell them what is going …
Read More »Defund the police… wait, no, my car’s been stolen, help! Woke political figures see their ideology falter as reality sets in
The term, “when the rubber hits the road” is used whenever an idea that seems good in theory meets practical application – basically, whenever you try to apply your own perceived genius to everyday life. Sometimes this works wonderfully, at other times the proverbial rubber explodes and everything you thought …
Read More »‘Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,’ French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches
“Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday. “Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is part of it,” he wrote, adding that he had asked the region’s prefect, a state-appointed official, to overrule the move. Officials in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, …
Read More »The EU’s decision-making is like the USSR’s: ideology trumps people. Von der Leyen’s stance on the vaccine rollout proves that
One of the deepest-held beliefs – ‘prejudices’ might be a better word – about the European Union is that it makes its member states stronger. It is in the name of this alleged greater strength that national sovereignty is sacrificed, on the basis that – as Emmanuel Macron claimed again …
Read More »Western belief that globalization can only move in tandem with ITS ideology is at the core of current confrontation with China
In 1992, Japanese-American scholar Francis Fukuyama authored a book titled ‘The End of History and the Last Man’ which fabled liberal democracy as the final, inevitable and ultimate stage of man’s evolutionary development. The timing was no coincidence, only a year earlier, the Soviet Union collapsed and brought an end …
Read More »Ban ideology in the Constitution — harmful misunderstanding
<tbody> </tbody> ALEXANDER ZAPESOTSKY Rector of St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of trade unions, a member-correspondent of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of education, doctor of culturological Sciences, Professor, honored science worker of the Russian Federation. Ban ideology in the Constitution — harmful misunderstanding I …
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