The short shelf life of corporate DEI
‘Wokeism’ is out, bigotry is in. Meanwhile, inequality continues unabated.
![Two explosions are seen in footage released by US President Donald that he says shows the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island. [Donald Trump via social media]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/us_strikes_iran_kharg_island_airport_airbase-1773461350.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Kharg Island strike shows how US force is calibrated to avoid disrupting global oil flows.
‘Wokeism’ is out, bigotry is in. Meanwhile, inequality continues unabated.
Trump’s ‘billionaire boys club’ has parallels in other supposedly liberal democracies around the world.
The controversy over Gayatri Spivak’s public rebuke of a Dalit scholar has important social and political implications.
![Noted postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s admonition of a young scholar for mispronouncing African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois’s name at a recent lecture has caused a brouhaha in academic circles [Wikimedia Commons].](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/spivak-1717761812.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)