Conrad Black: Why the Long Tyranny of ‘Wokeness’ Is on the Way Out

Conrad Black: Why the Long Tyranny of ‘Wokeness’ Is on the Way Out
People march across the Cambie Bridge while chanting and cheering during the Global Climate Strike protest in Vancouver on Sept. 15, 2023. The Canadian Press/Ethan Cairns
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The neutral-to-positive reception given President Trump’s video address to the Davos conference last week confirms that the long tyranny of wokeness, political correctness, affirmative action, aggressive restraints in the name of combating climate change, and militancy ostensibly on behalf of diversity, equity, and inclusion, is finally crumbling into dust, where many of us have been claiming it belonged.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.