"A Growing Sense of the Chickens Coming Home to Roost"

"But here's the catch. Le wokisme, which the French love to hate, isn't as foreign as its critics would have you believe. It actually traces its intellectual genealogy, at least in part, back to 1960s French intellectuals who analyzed and 'deconstructed' the language and the symbolism of power, kickstarting a global campus movement."

At Politico, Nicholas Vinocur notes that "France laid the foundations for campus 'woke' ideology."