Commentary
A few months ago Paul Viminitz, a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge (UL) in southern Alberta, invited me to give a talk on academic freedom. The talk originally intended to elaborate upon how “wokeism”—a phenomenon in which identity politics becomes totalitarian by insisting that the subjective beliefs of designated groups replace the search for an objective truth—had undermined the academic character of Mount Royal University in Calgary, where I had taught for many years. This circumstance, which resulted in my firing, was even more pronounced at the UL. Its prominence, in fact, resulted in the cancellation of my talk, underlining the threat that wokeism poses.
