A few years ago, there was considerable anxiety in some quarters about “political correctness,” particularly at universities. Now it’s known as wokeness, and even though the terminology has changed, ...

There is a question haunting Black people in the President Donald Trump era like a soulless apparition in a low-rent horror movie: Were we every really woke, or did we merely think we were because a ...

“Woke.” You keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you think it means. A new survey shows that while most Americans think they know what “woke” means, they don’t actually have a firm ...

CU Boulder PhD candidate Benjamin VanDreew’s search for an answer to that question finds that Barbie is, book banning isn’t, and that female Democrats are more likely than male Democrats to be seen as ...

Snap, YouTube settle school social media suit ahead of trial Memorial Drive shooting: Cambridge rep. defends judge, opposes criticism from Healey, Rollins Israel says it killed the leader of Hamas’ ...

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen some stuff about Cal football and a "woke agenda"? And you’re very confused about ...

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, by Musa al-Gharbi (Princeton, 432 pp., $35) What is a theory? In philosophy, we usually think of it as a set of propositions. These ...