The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism:

by Eric Kaufmann

Overview

We in the West are in the third wave of cultural-left ideological enthusiasm. Each "Awokening" has crested, fallen a little, consolidated, then surged again to reach a higher level. The cumulative result is an elite creed which has produced a crime wave, a worsening education system, chaos at the border, and social division. Fired by a cultural socialism that puts equal results and emotional protection for minorities at the center of their moral universe, today's young people are twice as intolerant of conservative speech as older generations. These young people will be the median voters and employees of tomorrow, leading and controlling the country. Woke cultural socialism is not the classical liberalism of the American Constitution, but a modern "majorities bad, minorities good" Left-liberalism. It is powered by a set of 'liberal' emotional attachments rather than liberal principles. These underpin a moral panic about whites and males combined with a starry-eyed patronizing approach to minorities.

Today's woke extremism is not a repudiation of liberalism, but a perverse extension of it. Our only way out is to use elected, constitutional, government power to break the grip of wokeness in our institutions and schools, steering them toward neutrality and classical liberalism. To do so, the conservative and moderate majority must place culture front and center and spare no effort to win the battle of ideas. Nothing less than the future of our civilization depends on it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888456354
Publisher:	Bombardier Books
Publication date:	05/13/2024
Pages:	418
Sales rank:	91,899
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He is also Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin Books, 2018/Abrams, 2019), Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (Profile Books, 2010), The Orange Order (Oxford University Press, 2007), The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Harvard University Press, 2004), and one other book. He has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, Newsweek, National Review, New Statesman, Financial Times, and other outlets.