We are at a perilous point in American history. Can what was great in our politics and culture, but is currently being ground down and snuffed out, be revived again? Can our civilization survive? If so, we need what the historian Arnold Toynbee and later thinkers such as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks referred to as “creative minorities.” Matthew J. Peterson and Nate Fischer are a creative minority of two with a new company to address what has gone wrong in American business over the last few decades.
Many people of good will predicted that the new economic engagement with China in the late twentieth century would spur the Chinese to become more like us. American dollars in trade would purchase American values in those trading with us. Yet something like the opposite has happened. Large American businesses now operate more like Chinese businesses, enforcing ruling class prerogatives and radically left-wing values. While we could wish the saying “go woke go broke” were an inexorable law, it is not. Or if it is, it does not happen immediately. Woke capital continues its successful alteration of the American economic and business landscape by driving out those who do not submit.
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