Washington Examiner: As a theory of everything, the ‘Great Feminization’ falls short

The wokification of America was so rapid and shocking that it has inspired a lively, political spectrum-spanning conversation. There are multiple strands to this discussion, which tend to complement each other: Christopher Caldwell and Richard Hanania consider wokism as a twisted descendant of the Civil Rights movement, Yascha Mounk and Carl Trueman explore its roots in postmodern and postcolonial thought, and Musa al Gharbi takes a sociological angle, explaining how status-anxious elites have used identity crusades to preserve their own wealth and privilege. John McWhorter and Douglas Murray show that wokism can be understood as a kind of new, radical faith.

Each angle sheds its own light on the problem, and taken together they offer a fairly satisfying picture of today’s militant progressivism. There’s a certain reassurance in this exercise. We may not be in Kansas anymore, but at least there’s a bit of a map.