Walking Woke Back

Woke is not over. It hasn’t “peaked,” and it’s not receding gently into the background as younger generations grow up to become more sensible. The aesthetic trappings of the latest campus pageantry should make this clear, at least: whatever cauldron of pomo theory and racial hatred produced the riots of 2020, its brew remains potent enough to give off new fumes. COVID masks, raised fists, postcolonialist jargon, broken windows: it’s all as entrenched as a college DEI department. This is what sustainability looks like.