Mounk is better at explaining how we came to be in the mess we’re in. A liberal constitutionalist, he’s a man of the 'universalist left,' which is the way that the left in the West used to be until the fall of the Berlin Wall ... There is, alas, a milquetoast quality to Mr. Mounk’s worries about the woke takeover of America’s academe ... Mr. Mounk never says so outright, but you can’t help concluding that he would have been happy if wokeism had been less unkempt, less absolutist and Manichaean, more gentle and more sweetly reasonable.
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