I have just finished Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke. It is a useful book because it does not offer the usual lazy attack on “wokeness.” Its more serious argument is about class, status, language, and moral performance. It shows how some highly educated professional classes can speak the language of justice while still … Continue reading Never Been Woke
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Ethnic Leadership and Ethic of Guardianship
There is a curious choreography in the public life of Aotearoa New Zealand. Political leaders are not often seen in social media feeds with photographs from ordinary Sunday church congregations. Such images may suggest denominational favour, religious alignment, or proximity to organised Christian conservatism. Yet the same leaders appear quite comfortably at mosques, mandirs, gurdwaras, … Continue reading Ethnic Leadership and Ethic of Guardianship
The Model Migrant and the Treaty Shadow
There is a particular kind of politics that looks, at first glance, like courage. It speaks in the clean language of equality, merit, order, and national unity. It says it is tired of division. It says everyone should be treated the same. It carries itself with the polished confidence of common sense. But in Aotearoa … Continue reading The Model Migrant and the Treaty Shadow
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