In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,” Humpty Dumpty scornfully declares that “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.” So, what does “woke” mean? It’s become the pet political aspersion that today’s kooky right-wing hucksters hurl at liberals, but the hurlers would be whopperjawed to learn that it’s was actually coined by and for progressives! Indeed, it admonishes people to be awake to the […]
To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable