Commentary For the young in America, the first advantage of Wokeness is that it provides purpose and meaning in their otherwise meandering lives. It gives our caring 18-year-old a place in a mighty arc of history that runs from injustice to justice, bad people to good people. The vision of progress has an immediate appeal if the youth has been disappointed in his other ambitions (not getting into the right school, losing a girlfriend, not making the varsity …). Criticisms don’t break through it. If a few historians discover some factual errors in the 1619 Project, if Antifa smashes a few windows, if women now outnumber men in college and graduate programs, and Jussie Smollett staged the whole thing, well, that doesn’t change the fundamental emotional satisfaction the Movement supplies. It’s a false god, a wolf in righteous clothing, which means that parents and mentors dismayed by Woke converts must …