Q&A: Susan Neiman on Why It's a Mistake to Call the Left 'Woke'

In a new book, the Berlin-based philosopher and writer argues that the intellectual roots of wokeism conflict with ideas that have guided the left for hundreds of years.

Susan Neiman. (Credit: James Starrt.)

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer living in Berlin. She is the author of a new book, Left is Not Woke, which argues that the blurring of left and…