The question to Elon Musk was a long time coming: What is the “woke mind virus," anyway? For months and months, the world’s richest man has been talking about the “woke mind virus"—let’s call it WMV for short. He describes it as a threat to “modern civilization" and says those concerns motivated his decision more than a year ago to buy the social-media platform now known as X. When it comes to how he defines that threat, however, he has been vague in public—painting a picture of something akin to hysterical groupthink by liberals against merit-based achievement and free speech,...