Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has become much more complicated after Trump moved into the White House. Most corporations, federal agencies and academic institutions have built up DEI offices and use DEI principes for recruiting. If there were five candidates and one was transgender, the transgender candidate would get picked regardless of qualifications. DEI was the…
In the past few years, a cluster of books and articles has appeared analyzing “woke” as a cultural phenomenon. Even though there is no consensus around its meaning, most analysts agree that it is in essence a mutation within identity politics. Woke pursues social justice primarily on the axes of race, gender, and sexuality, much…
To many Americans, the big problem with the democratic party is that it has moved too far to the left. Despite this, the party is finding itself moving even further to the left. Leaders like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are leading the left-wing of the party and they tend to get increasingly powerful as…
Europe’s tech future is at risk from fierce competition from the U.S. and China, existing and developing Big Tech, and primarily its own flawed competitiveness obsession. As part of his confrontational stance toward Europe, U.S. Trump could end up weaponizing critical technologies. The European Union should appreciate the nature of this threat instead of focusing…
American conservatism could be described as part of the traditional republican party. Conservatives largely support Christian values, moral absolutism, and American exceptionalism, while generally opposing abortion, euthanasia, and various LGBT rights. They tend to favor economic liberalism, and are generally pro-business and pro-capitalism, while opposing communism and labor unions. Under Trump, a new breed of…
