“Peak Woke”

“It conditions us to be governed by minorities, dissolving the natural bonds of society,” says Javier Milei’s right-hand man.

Agustín Laje, Argentine political scientist, writer, and one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the new Latin American Right, is known as President Javier Milei’s closest ideologue. The author of impactful books like Cultural Battle and Idiot Generation, Laje has managed to combine theoretical reflection with political action.This year, he was one of the keynote speakers at CPAC Hungary 2025, held in Budapest—the largest gathering of the international Right in Europe. He shared his views on wokeism, the structural weaknesses of the European Union, the differences between European and Latin American right-wing movements, and the challenges facing parties like Vox in Spain.

George Orwell’s estate has been accused of attempting to censor 1984 by adding a “trigger warning” preface to the 75th anniversary edition of the dystopian novel.

The new introductory essay describes the novel’s protagonist Winston Smith as “problematic” and warns modern readers may find his views on women “despicable”.

In response to Donald Trump’s various insults, threats, and tariffs, we have apparently never been prouder to be Canadian. Why, I flew a “God Save The King” flag on the Victoria Day long weekend and nobody threw a rock. Unless you count the Governor General, presenting the “Award of Merit” to various police persons on behalf of the King, recently throwing “We are gathered today on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation” through the stained glass. Congratulations to you brave, noble social workers with sidearms enforcing settler colonialism. Brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?

History is an area of remarkable success in our schools thanks to recent education reforms. However, these impressive strides forward risk being undermined by a new wave of activism in classrooms.

Following the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, 83 per cent of schools have made changes to ‘diversify’ or ‘decolonise’ their curriculums in recent years. In many cases, this shake-up has brought politicised and one-sided narratives into schools. Inaccurate and poor-quality teaching resources are being used to give students a mistaken impression of the past.

Last month, with the assistance of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a group of University of British Columbia professors and a former student filed a lawsuit asking the B.C. Supreme Court to protect academic freedom by ordering the university administration to stop breaching its statutory duty to remain non-political: No more requiring fealty to DEI ideology from job applicants. No more statements about the Israel-Gaza war. No more land acknowledgements by the administration in academic settings where academic freedom is impinged.

Former actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman, of Family Ties and Violet fame, said the election of President Trump may be the tipping point for the “woke mob mentality” that terrorize American culture.

Speaking with The Irish Times about the state of Hollywood and the downfall of cinema, Bateman discussed a book she had written about beauty standards and how it struck a chord with people who had been chasing plastic surgery.

A Cambridge University museum has claimed Britain’s exploration of Antarctica was “colonial” – despite only penguins living there.

The university’s Polar Museum holds personal artefacts linked to the explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

The museum informs visitors that the daring and often fatal expeditions to the South Pole were “in the colonial mould”, despite the southernmost continent having no human population to conquer or exploit.