Some sources of Wokism are psychological and some are intellectual, from groundwork laid by generations of thinkers. Carter and guest Stephen Hicks take up these questions: What is cancel culture — in contrast to liberal culture? What is the Enlightenment? Why does Rousseau matter? Was Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” part of the Enlightenment or the Counter-Enlightenment? […]

The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss made this strong claim: “The relation of Nietzsche to the German Nazi is comparable to the relation of Rousseau to the French Revolution.” (1941 lecture, “German Nihilism,” later published in the journal *Interpretation*, p. 372) Is he correct? My book-length analysis of the connections (and disconnections) between Nietzsche and

“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” The Road to Wigan Pier, 1933

I’ll be live today with Carter at the Unsafe Spaces conversation. 7 pm Central. Topics: The scary “isms”: Wokism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory conspiratorialism, and more.