The other day, Robert P. George, one of the world’s foremost intellectuals (and a conservative at that), reposted an old thread on Twitter/X, specifically to note how dramatically the culture has shifted in just four years. His original thread was about Dr. Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, who, in October 2021, was disinvited from presenting a prestigious lecture at MIT because he had previously questioned the merits of DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As Professor George wrote at the time, the woke “mob” successfully silenced a brilliant scientist, preventing him from speaking on the subject of his expertise (“climates of extrasolar planets”) because he held completely unrelated political beliefs that were, nevertheless, deemed unacceptable by the leftist intellectual elites. That, George pointed out in his update, was “when we were hitting peak Woke,” but mercifully, “there really has been a vibe shift” since those dark days.
In response to Professor George’s post and his assertion that the days of “peak woke” are behind us and that the broader culture has returned to something more akin to sanity, I’d like to do a couple of things. First, I’d like to confirm that he is right. I imagine that neither he nor you, gentle reader, really needs me to do this. The signs are all around us, after all, and are fairly obvious.
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