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The wokification of America was so rapid and shocking that it has inspired a lively, political spectrum-spanning conversation. There are multiple strands to this discussion, which tend to complement each other: Christopher Caldwell and Richard Hanania consider wokism as a twisted descendant of the Civil Rights movement, Yascha Mounk and Carl Trueman explore its roots in postmodern and postcolonial thought, and Musa al Gharbi takes a sociological angle, explaining how status-anxious elites have used identity crusades to preserve their own wealth and privilege. John McWhorter and Douglas Murray show that wokism can be understood as a kind of new, radical faith.