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Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Great Awokening and Overlapping Consensus

Andrew Koppelman

The quasi-religious fervor of modern wokeness has notorious tendencies toward a repressive orthodoxy. Hardly anyone has noticed the contradictions this displays. It’s not just that free speech is valuable—a claim that, sadly, no longer commands universal assent, particularly on the left. The critique I offer here is internal: a culture of repression and fear obstructs the socially transformative aims of the antiracism movement.

I explain in a new piece at Public Discourse, here.


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