“Wokeness” is not new; it is simply the most modern iteration of an identity-oriented, social-justice-minded politics that took off in the U.S. in the mid-1960s. The vanguards of American wokeness were the “New Left,” a notably cerebral, theory-reading contingent of the ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture. As the counterculture waned, many individuals from, or adjacent to, […]