Commentary
It’s become a habit of late to blame foreign ideologies for what’s wrong with America. But the radical ideas driving disastrous policies and actions don’t come from communism or fascism, or even globalism. Rather, the sources of America’s self-destructive woke culture are thoroughly American.
According to author and historian Lee Harris, our concept of the “elite” and the ideas they advocate—from progressivism to racial and climate justice—are as old as America itself. “Intellectual history is sometimes like archaeology,” says Harris. “You have to dig, and you find artifacts so different from anything we can relate to” to see the connections….