“Peak Woke”

No one who lived through the past 10 years should allow Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to giggle away the hell called “woke” that she and Democrats inflicted on this country. It can’t possibly be that easy for them to move on from what they did just because they know it’s unpopular and it complicates things for their leaders wanting to run for president in 2028.

Hey, remember that unhinged cultural revolution we launched a few years back? That was insane — amirite?

That’s essentially what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told ABC News host Jonathan Karl recently, quoting a New York City Council member who describes socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past tweets about defunding the police and shuttering prisons.

A disgraced black professor accused of being a fabulist, and the shaming of formerly world-renowned Cambridge University proves the toxic, divisive and destructive power of the much-loved progressive practice of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Jason Arday, once the darling of academia, resigned as a professor of sociology of education at Cambridge on Wednesday after a week of being pummeled in the press in an ever-increasing escalation of exposés.

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that warn people that the museum does not accurately reflect American history while pointing them to material that does — a dramatic escalation in his campaign to wrest control of how the nation’s story is told.

The executive order, signed at the end of a week of contentious congressional hearings on the museum, directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to erect temporary signage along the National Park Service-controlled sidewalks and walkways the public uses to reach the museum. The signs would inform visitors of the White House’s criticisms, tell them the museum’s exhibits “should be renovated” and direct them elsewhere “to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.”

I’m not an American but I’d vote for this.

It is the foremost museum in the United States, a grand repository of 150 million artefacts sometimes nicknamed “America’s Attic”. Founded in 1846 by the British philanthropist James Smithson – who never visited America but admired its democratic ideals – the Smithsonian Institution is dedicated to “the diffusion of knowledge”.

The occasion this month of the mockumentary The Office celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first appearance on television, an anniversary marked by a couple of actual documentaries, will have prompted some to revisit the comedy, or watch it for the first time.

Many who have done so will have inevitably asked themselves the same question: why did television comedy used to be so funny, and why is that not the case anymore? It’s not a conclusion that will be confined to us old timers: it’s said that there is vogue for all things turn-of-the-millennium among generations Y and Z.

Seeking to counter what it called a decade-long “revisionist movement” to “rewrite our Nation’s history,” the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14253 on March 27, 2025, directing federal officials to review Smithsonian exhibits and programs for ideological content.  Pursuant to that order, the White House Domestic Policy Council released a report, “Saving America’s Story,” on America’s 250th anniversary of Independence Day arguing that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History has strayed from its core public mission: telling America’s story with honesty, seriousness, and civic pride.