A National Refounding?

The first article, linked by Frank, is actually better than good. It's one of Angelo Codevilla's more thoughtful pieces, and it provides substantive food for thought to everyone who wonders where the road ahead leads. The other two articles, in their own ways, address that concern as well.

Codevilla riffs off Machiavelli's distinction between founding and refounding a political order--in our case, a republic:

To Rescue a Nation

Restoring America requires dedicated citizens to re-found our Republic.

Codevilla sets the problem in a way that's difficult to dispute:

Briefly Noted: What Have The Woke Awakened?

Are we finally seeing the American public reacting against the Woke? The Progs, CRTs, Antifa, BLM, etc.? Every day seems to bring fresh examples that suggest that that might be the case.

Yesterday we noted the surge in support for the death penalty--a decidedly unwoke position. Today we link to several stories over the last few days that suggest that people are fed up, they've had enough and don't want any more. In fact, they want to roll back what's been going on. So, just a sample:

[Federal] Judge approves suit alleging new Virginia high school admission policy discriminates against Asians

The judge said the school's admissions policy was not "race-neutral."

The SCOTUS has dodged the issue of discrimination masquerading as diversity in the guise of affirmative action for years. It may not be possible any longer, as Asians in particular are seeing the handwriting on the wall as it affects them where they live.

Briefly Noted: Cuomo, Covid, PC

At Red State there's an article that draws on Michael Goodwin, columnist at the NYPost who's been all over the Cuomo story, to outline the increasing legal jeopardy that Cuomo is facing:

Are the Walls Finally Closing in Around Andrew Cuomo? NY Post's Michael Goodwin Nails It

The problem that Cuomo is facing is that his closest aides are now receiving subpoenas to produce official documents as well as to testify. Some of these subpoenas are coming as a result of the FBI investigation into the nursing home deaths. Here are two key paragraphs:

The subpoenas, which include demands for testimony and documents, are coming as the result of an FBI investigation into whether Cuomo illegally withheld nursing home fatalities from the Department of Justice and an investigation by the office of Democrat Attorney General Letitia James into the numerous sexual harassment allegations. For those of you keeping score at home, the number of accusers now stands at nine.

The FBI probe presents greater legal jeopardy for Cuomo, because “the prospect of criminal conduct is more pronounced, wrote Goodwin: “There is no doubt Cuomo’s team lied about nursing home deaths and withheld the truth by changing an official Health Department report.” Goodwin laid out one scenario in which a Cuomo aide could throw the governor under the bus in a heartbeat.

In Covid news, or perhaps in Authoritarian Government news:

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down statewide mask mandate

Basically, the WISC said that "the governor did not have the authority to extend the state's public health emergency beyond 60 days without approval from the legislature." It's good to see government by executive decree finally being challenged in some states.

Finally, Steve Sailer reveals where much of "Wokism" is coming from. It's a good illustration of why philosophy--or ideology, at any rate--actually matters.

New Accusations Against Po-Mo Philosopher Michel Foucault

It's worth noting that the leading lights of the related phenomenon of the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism were almost uniformly perverts as well. Sailer quotes an earlier article he wrote on the same topic: