Woke 2.0

What is woke, anyway? For the average pundit, it’s the pretension to a superior wisdom or a more fervent dedication in regard to racial and sexual justice. About economic equality and procedural democracy, woke doesn’t have much to say, but about perceived disrespect in matters of ethnicity or gender, it can’t say enough. An abundance of zeal and a lack of proportion have made woke—or identity politics, a roughly equivalent term—something between a laughingstock and a bugbear among the American public at large.