There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness

There was a moment — it was brief — when I thought the era of peak woke, or what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently referred to as “Woke 1,” could lead to a free speech renaissance in this country.

On July 7, 2020 — in the midst of a shameful and sometimes terrifying wave of cancellations and terminations that included a number of innocent people who either had the misfortune of being misunderstood or speaking in ways that angered the most intolerant voices online — a cross-partisan coalition of writers, professors and other public figures published “A Letter on Justice and........

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