As I wrote in The Guardian in November 2021: “Fairly or not, ‘woke’ and ‘wokeness’ now overwhelmingly signal that you’re not fundamentally interested in that rhetorical labor, and ...

To elucidate it further, I’m going to offer — God, forgive me — another definition of “wokeness,” one which bears at least some resemblance to the way it is deployed in our jaundiced ...

Opposition to “wokeness” is disingenuous because it is rooted in being against something that often goes without a clear definition. But therein lies its effectiveness — it doesn’t have to ...

According to the dictionary, the definition of wokeness is “having or marked by an active awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices, especially those involving the treatment of ethnic ...

The aspirational Florida governor waves the word “woke” around like a sword. Woke this, woke that, wokeness, anti-woke, woke mob. After his fiery inaugural speech Jan. 3, in which the only ...

The obvious definition—that it is a belief system, what writer Wesley Yang has dubbed “the successor ideology”—has considerable merit. (See “ The Identity Cult ,” Winter 2022.) But as American ...

At the height of “wokeness” (or “social justice” if you like), writers like Helen Lewis and John McWhorter speculated that it might be “our new religion,” supplanting Christianity at a ...