In 2018, some activists, appalled by woke nonsense being published by academic journals, submitted nonsensical research.

One paper claimed researchers “closely and respectfully examined the genitals of … ten thousand dogs” to learn about “rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks.”

Some journals published it.

But one of the hoaxers, James Lindsay, claims this “woke virus” now has spread to the right.

“There is a radical segment embedded within MAGA … that acts the same way, uses the same tactics, acts like the woke left,” he told me.  

I was skeptical. But to make his point, Lindsay pulled off a new hoax.

He rewrote parts of “The Communist Manifesto” and, using the pseudonym Marcus Carlson (a play on Karl Marx), submitted it to the conservative magazine American Reformer.

His article criticized classical liberal ideas like free markets, global trade and individual freedom, like Marx did.

Yet the conservative magazine published it.

Even after a reader pointed out that it was........

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