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96/100Author:
Yascha Mounk
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
September 26, 2023
Mounk provides an account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called "wokeness." He shows how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the "identity synthesis" that conquered many college campuses by 2010. He lays out how a relatively marginal set of ideas came to gain tremendous influence in business, media, and government by 2020.
What The Reviewers Say
We have ascended far above the artisanal screen-shotting of invoices and stand in the presence of a genuine master of ideological niche marketing.
The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted. Erudite and up to date, Mounk integrates ideas from philosophy, political theory, political science and psychology, along with the views of a range of commentators.
Mounk is better at explaining how we came to be in the mess we’re in. A liberal constitutionalist, he’s a man of the 'universalist left,' which is the way that the left in the West used to be until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It’s a straightforward story. But it only hangs together if you don’t press too hard.
