The review frames 'wokeism' not as a single program but as a contagion that propagates through academic networks and credentialed professions, causing logically disconnected beliefs (climate alarmism, gender theories, anti‑imperialism) to cluster. It suggests institutional density of educated professions explains why these ideas spread beyond campus into media and government.
— If universities function as transmission hubs for ideological clusters, interventions aimed at ideas (rather than institutions) will fail and policy should focus on institutional incentives and hiring/promotion norms.
Colin Wright
2026.03.05
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The piece cites John D. Haltigan’s Theory and Society article claiming that progressive social‑justice norms have distorted developmental psychopathology by narrowing permissible questions and privileging moral urgency over empirical testing — a concrete example of the broader existing idea that universities can propagate ideological shifts that spread through academic disciplines.
2026.03.05
100% relevant
Dalrymple paraphrases Doyle calling universities 'foci of infection' and likens wokeism to 'the measles of the educated', directly tying the phenomenon to academic institutions and credential flows.
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