“To suggest, as the critical race theorists do, that equality must precede liberty is simply to jettison the latter without securing the former.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr., director, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard, writing in the New Republic, 1993 A major effort to attack critical race theory is gaining steam at the policy level, in local school boards, in the regulation of the military by Congress, and in state legislatures mooting bills that would, in some cases, restrict teaching in institutions of higher learning. It is no longer tenable for people who care about the substance of this fight over ideas to pretend it is an argument over what to call them, or to pretend coyly not to know approximately what is being discussed when people refer to wokeness. Cultural and policy changes are moving fast.