Wesley Yang

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Wesley Yang is an American essayist and conservative political commentator. He is currently a columnist for Tablet magazine and a contributor editor for Esquire . He hosts a blog and podcast called Year Zero.

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Biography

Yang was born to Korean-American parents who were refugees from the Korean War and was raised in New Jersey. [1] He studied history at Rutgers University.

Yang attracted mainstream attention in 2008 after publishing an article in n+1 about Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting. He has since then written extensively about the experiences of Asian-Americans in American society. [1]

Yang published his first book, The Souls of Yellow Folk, in 2018. A collection of his previously published essays, the book was selected as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post , and one of the best books of the year by The Spectator and Publishers Weekly . Yang coined the term "successor ideology" in 2019 to describe an emerging ideology among left-wing movements in the United States centered around identity politics. Yang opposes this ideology and believes it may replace traditional liberal values. [2] [3]

Yang costarred as Wes in the 2008 Alex Karpovsky docufiction film Woodpecker .

References

  1. 1 2 MacDougald, Park (November 13, 2018). "Wesley Yang on Asian-Americans, Political Correctness, and the Struggle for Recognition". New York Magazine.
  2. ↑ Jeong, Sarah (July 10, 2020). "Social media and the end of discourse". The Verge. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ Berkowitz, Roger (18 June 2020). "The New Orthodoxy". Bard College. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
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