The latter scenario is suggested by the Canadian academic Eric Kaufmann’s response to the wokeness-has-peaked arguments. The current pendulum swing is real enough, he argues, but the ideological enforcers don’t need to win every near-term battle to win the institutional war: … in the long run, liberalism is giving way to progressivism in elite spaces. The new cultural liberalism in the media reflects the views of senior staff members and is opposed by affinity groups and young employees. That’s important, because surveys consistently find that “woke” values are twice as prevalent among younger leftists than among older leftists. Over eight...