Four Big Questions for the Counter-Revolution
I was in the middle of working on a rather different long essay when, eventually, I came to the conclusion that I had little choice but to write this one first instead. In recent weeks my thoughts have been roiled by a series of questions that, eventually, I felt compelled to put down in writing.
These questions are, essentially, root questions about the nature and future direction of what I will call, for lack of any better term, the Counter-Revolution – the informal and disorganized, but growing, and already global, network of people thinking about, writing about, and now increasingly building institutions with a mission of actively pushing back against the revolutionary tide of the (again for lack of a better term) “Woke” New Faith-Ideology.
What is fascinating about this Counter-Revolution is the surprising political breadth – indeed one might say diversity – of the people that have been brought together under its tent of opposition. Liberals, conservatives, and libertarians; rationalist humanists and the New Atheists; social conservatives, religious traditionalists, and neo-reactionaries; even some classical Marxists and left-labor-socialists; and many others that defy easy categorization – all have been at least temporarily united in shared recognition of an existential threat to their collective survival.
