Commentary Our cultural intelligentsia has commanded that in the name of social justice, certain beliefs about the world are infallible, never to be questioned. Such beliefs stand to our cultural moment as the ex cathedra pronouncements of a Medieval Pope: One questions such decrees only on penalty of excommunication. Like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, our world grows progressively “curiouser and curiouser.” We regularly encounter dubious and eccentric claims about what it means to be human; how, ideally, society should be ordered; and how history is to be understood. We are told to shut up and accept such claims uncritically, even as they assault our critical faculties and understandings of the world. Skepticism is verboten in the world of the woke. When Alice reproached the Red Queen, saying that “one can’t believe impossible things,” the Red Queen quickly corrected her: “I daresay you haven’t had much practice … Why, …
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