Woke as Academic Epidemic

The review frames wokeism not as a tightly organized movement but as an epidemic concentrated in educated institutions — a social infection that clusters logically unrelated grievances (climate, gender, Palestine) within university cohorts and professional networks. Treating it as an epidemiological spread suggests different responses—public‑health style inoculation (civic education, intellectual pluralism) rather than purely political bans or cultural moralizing. — If wokeism behaves like an institutional contagion, interventions should focus on institutional culture, recruitment pipelines, and curricular incentives rather than only electoral or rhetorical strategies.