The Legal Origin Story of Wokeness Is a Map to Defeating Woke 2.0

— a University of San Diego Law School professor who, having spent decades working in civil rights law at a high level, is an exceedingly rare specimen on the right — has brought needed attention to the overlooked story of wokeness’s origins in policy and law. It’s one we need to understand fully if we’re to pursue a solution that actually rolls back the “woke exceptions” to anti-discrimination law that have gutted meritocracy, encouraged bigotry, shut down national conversations, and generally poisoned race relations in our multiethnic republic.

In Why We Walk on Eggshells, a recent release from Encounter Books, Heriot builds a nearly unassailable case that many of these pernicious effects are not “politics downstream from culture,” but rather “culture downstream from law.”

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Inez Feltscher Stepman

Inez Feltscher Stepman is a senior policy and legal analyst at the Independent Women's Forum.

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— a University of San Diego Law School professor who, having spent decades working in civil rights law at a high level, is an exceedingly rare specimen on the right — has brought needed attention to the overlooked story of wokeness’s origins in policy and law. It’s one we need to understand fully if we’re to pursue a solution that actually rolls back the “woke exceptions” to anti-discrimination law that have gutted meritocracy, encouraged bigotry, shut down national conversations, and generally poisoned race relations in our multiethnic republic.

In Why We Walk on Eggshells, a recent release from Encounter Books, Heriot builds a nearly unassailable case that many of these pernicious effects are not “politics downstream from culture,” but rather “culture downstream from law.”