Defenders of the West

Wokeism, which has taken off in the United States but has its deepest intellectual roots in Europe, is only the latest variant of thought dating back to the 1960s that has subjected Western civilization to relentless criticism. While there is no shortage of reasons for Western guilt—the Holocaust, slavery, racism, and imperialism—the antihumanism of postmodern thought since the 1960s has sapped Western, and especially European, self-confidence.