NSA Is Where ‘Woke’ Goes To Die

On the eve of November 4, 2024, the air was thick with tension. A national reckoning loomed. Either the ideological fervor of wokeness would continue to corrode the foundations of American greatness, or the nation would be granted a reprieve—a chance to begin rolling back the rot left by successive progressive administrations.

With the return of President Donald Trump and his cabinet, substantial ground has been regained. Key policies propping up the DEI regime in corporate America have been dismantled. Federal pressure behind digital censorship, transgender interventions on minors, and the grotesque celebration of abortion have been challenged or reversed. These victories deserve real celebration. Yet triumph should not breed complacency. A battle may have been won, but the war is far from over. Wokeness, though wounded, has not disappeared—it has merely changed tactics. Its claws remain deeply embedded, even within institutions that outwardly oppose its dogma.

Many have grown accustomed to a world that cares little for a person’s character—or even their name—and far more for whether they can be categorized as oppressors or victims. To question or reject these categories is to risk being branded an enemy of justice, an opponent of progress.

In this paradigm, man is seen as the chief architect of reality, locked in a struggle to survive and secure power. Good is whatever appeases the perceived victim; evil is whatever promotes the standing of the supposed oppressor. The highest moral calling is activism, revolution, and the relentless pursuit of retribution for perceived historical injustices. The end goal is a society in which man is free to live as he pleases—without restraint, without judgment, without God. Make no mistake: this is a vision of a world stripped not merely of tradition, but of Christianity itself—the true object of postmodern contempt.

For all its clamor, social justice is, in the end, a denial of God's sovereignty, justice, wisdom, Word, and created order.

This distinction is crucial: wokeness is not merely a set of progressive attitudes—it is the cultural outworking of secularism and postmodernism, both fundamentally anti-Christian at their core. It presumes a godless universe in which power, not principle, is the supreme ethic. In such a worldview, truth is no longer objective but dictated by popular sentiment, and knowledge is fluid—reshaped by the tides of political utility.

Wokeness demonizes disparity, conflating it with injustice. It revises history with impunity and dismisses objective fact, since narrative and shared experience now reign supreme. It casts suspicion on heterosexuality, masculinity, femininity, wealth, and certain ethnicities. It seeks an impossible harmony between sexual libertinism, occult spirituality, Islamic exceptionalism, big government, and environmental zealotry. It thrives on bitterness and weaponizes envy.

At its core, it dehumanizes—reducing individuals to mere instruments in a ceaseless power struggle. It feeds off disruption and perpetual discontent, recruiting the insecure and aggrieved as the vanguard of its cause. For all its clamor, social justice—understood as the political activism of postmodern thought—is, in the end, a denial of God's sovereignty, justice, wisdom, Word, and created order.

The consequences of this ideological conquest are not abstract—they are devastatingly concrete. Wokeness has infiltrated the cultural bloodstream, reshaping institutions by redefining moral and social norms. In the family, it erodes natural distinctions between men and women, normalizes divorce, and recasts homosexuality as virtue. In the church, it sows confusion over sin, justice, and identity—draining pulpits of courage and clarity.

In the marketplace, it corrupts corporate culture, imposing diversity dogmas over merit and excellence. In academia, it canonizes Marxist theory, vilifies Western civilization, and fosters a generation trained to see grievance as a moral compass. In politics, it empowers globalist ideologies and totalitarian impulses—justifying censorship, racial partiality, and an ever-expanding state. It elevates superstition over truth, subjectivism over reality, and power over principle.

What emerges is not justice but a fragile world held together by resentment, ruled by activists, and suspicious of God, history, and reason. Wokeness thrives on discontent—but its end is not liberation. It is the quiet death of civilization by euphemism and decree.

Postmodernism—the poison in the village well for generations—has been eagerly adopted by those who cannot bear the weight of truth. Truth is intolerable to idolaters, for it confronts their lusts and exposes their appetite for evil. The extreme displays of depravity celebrated by the modern left are not merely cultural pathologies; they are theological declarations. They are the liturgy of godlessness—and all godlessness, in time, leads to destruction.

Those who recognize the corrosive consequences of woke ideology may succeed in slowing its advance, but they will never uproot it without replacing it with a truth strong and robust enough to endure.

This is why godless conservatism, though politically distinct from progressivism, is theologically allied to it. Both are animated by secularism and downstream from the same atheistic root. The former may occasionally stand against some forms of moral decay, but without submission to God, it merely rearranges the furniture on a sinking ship. Appeals to natural order, unmoored from the Creator, are insufficient to preserve or reform culture. The modern conservative movement—still waving the banners of free markets, low taxes, strong borders, and national interests—remains a mercy in contrast to a leftist machine hell-bent on societal arson. And while its commitment to certain virtuous ideals deserves recognition, many (though not all) of its adherents stand on morally compromised ground. Their acceptance of homosexuality, reluctance to legislate against abortion as murder, flirtation with functional feminism, cozy tolerance of religions hostile to Christianity, and embrace of secularism betray a deep theological confusion. These are weak foundations for otherwise good ideals—foundations that will crumble the moment they lose political utility or public favor. In truth, the term "conservative" rings increasingly hollow in a nation where Christianity—the cornerstone of its former greatness—is no longer defended. Pragmatism has replaced principle. So long as the economy thrives and government functions, why fuss over sodomy in private quarters or if elected officials swear oaths on the Bhagavad Gita instead of the Bible? But the irony lost on many modern conservatives is that these very compromises are upstream from the cultural decay and political instability they lament. Their half-hearted resistance to leftism has morphed into an unwitting reinforcement of it.

Even among professing Christians, those who imagine the public square to be neutral or who invoke vague notions of “common sense” divorced from the Gospel and God’s law often unwittingly perpetuate the very ideologies they claim to oppose. Wokeness is not merely a leftist impulse; it is a parasite that feeds on any form of godlessness—right or left, religious or secular.

Those who recognize the corrosive consequences of woke ideology may succeed in slowing its advance, but they will never uproot it without replacing it with a truth strong and robust enough to endure. Mere reaction is not enough; reformation requires a robust worldview. And Christianity remains the only faith with the power to reform culture from the ground up.

This is, unmistakably, a time for building—an opportunity to plant roots deep enough to withstand the storms to come. And it is precisely such a time that brings institutions like New Saint Andrews College into sharp relief. Since its founding in 1994, New Saint Andrews has stood firm where others have capitulated. It has never wavered in the face of cultural pressure. It has never needed to revise its mission to be “anti-woke,” for its historic Christian identity has always been a bulwark against compromise.

Rooted in the Christian liberal arts tradition, New Saint Andrews forms leaders who are diligent, principled, and courageous—men and women prepared to confront evil, shoulder responsibility, and build enduring cultures in all the spaces they inhabit. It does not posture; it produces. It does not retreat; it equips.

New Saint Andrews is where wokeness comes to die. And on the ash heap of that failed revolution, it continues to build—stone by stone—for the Kingdom of the King of Kings, who is making all things new.