Should Liberals Side With Conservatives against Woke

Randall also leads us through a reading of Eric Kaufmann’s The Third Awokening, perhaps the most important treatment of the rise of woke ideology. Where Richard Hanania finds wokeism gestating in American civil rights law, and Chris Rufo sees its beginnings in a generation of scholars steeped in Critical Theory, Kaufmann sees wokeism’s rise in the emotional attachment of American liberals to the struggle for black equality, “an egalitarian care/empathy reflex directed first toward blacks, then toward all other identity groups

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