Welcome, everybody. It's good to see so many familiar faces here tonight.

Welcome to this University of Buckingham Center for Heterodox Social Science event,

is woke dead. And we're going to have a fantastic array of speakers tonight.

We've got Matt Goodwin, Gadsad, and Bacha, Ungar Sargon,

who are going to be coming down onto the stage in a minute.

So woke is, as I define it, the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender,

and sexual identity groups.

The question before us tonight is whether this ideology, which has convulsed the West in the last

decade, is in fact dead or whether it is in fact simply responding.

Woke has a whole number of downstream effects, whether we talk about border security, crime, education.

It's not just about the battle of ideas on campus.

A number of commentators have been arguing that in fact, woke is dead.

Most recently, Ricky Jervais, as he was getting a star in Hollywood, but also the term

vibe shift has been coined by a number of people like Matthew Iglesias.

Iglesias always seems to come up with the defining terms of the woke era.

He came up with a great awokening, I believe.

Anyway, Andrew Doyle is also of this opinion to some degree, and it is true we are seeing,

you know, AOC and Pete Buttigieg removing pronouns, even Ash Sarkar in this country claiming

that she's against woke.

So maybe there is some progress there,

but on the other hand, there's a strong case as well that, in fact, this thing is persisting.

Young people are more woke than old, and as they become the median voter, won't that bring woke

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