Commentary Will 2022 be the year that woke ideology crests and begins its melancholy withdrawing roar? I wouldn’t count on it, but there are some scattered signs of impatience and spine-stiffening. Campus Reform even found some examples among the wokest of woke menageries, reporting “ten times universities said no to the woke mob in 2021” (hat tip to Instapundit, where I first saw the story). None of the super-rich redoubts were on that list, of course, no Yales or Harvards or Princetons, and certainly no Williamses, Smiths or Swarthmores. Still, the report might be interpreted as a sort of harbinger—a sparrow of dissent indicating the advent of a spring of sanity. Or maybe it was just a somnolent groundhog wrested from its place of hibernation only to glimpse its shadow and thereby foretell another long spate of winter. My own sense is that the soldiers of wokeness, neglecting Gertrude Stein’s …
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