The Woke Movement Has Peaked. What’s Next? | Andrew Doyle
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Have we reached the end of “woke”? Comedian and writer Andrew Doyle thinks yes. But he believes new forms of what he calls the “authoritarianism impulse” will follow.
He’s the author of “The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.”
Doyle is the creator of Titania McGrath, a fictional ultra-woke activist whose X account became hugely popular and currently has over 700K followers.
Doyle has also published satirical books under Titania’s name, including “My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism.”
In our conversation, we dive into the many ways woke ideology has transformed Western societies and explore growing restrictions on hate speech in Europe. In the United Kingdom, dozens of people are arrested for speech-related offenses every day, Doyle says.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | To literally sacrifice children on the altar of your ideology, |
| 0:05.0 | I think it's kind of unforgivable, |
| 0:07.0 | but it does show how far some decent people can go |
| 0:10.0 | when they are ideologically brainwashed. |
| 0:13.0 | I think it means that good people end up doing, |
| 0:15.0 | well, purely evil things, frankly. |
| 0:17.0 | In this episode, I'm sitting down with writer and comedian Andrew Doyle. |
| 0:20.0 | His latest book is titled The End of Woke, How the Culture War Went Too Far, and What to |
| 0:25.5 | Expect from the Counter-Revolution. |
| 0:27.6 | Sweden had the highest level of trust in Europe for a long time. |
| 0:30.6 | And then since the migrant crisis, there are grenades going off in the streets and there |
| 0:34.5 | are gunfights. |
| 0:35.6 | Where is Western civilization headed? |
| 0:38.3 | Will DEI initiatives and gender ideology be replaced by something else? |
| 0:42.3 | I mean, if you look at all the various definitions of hate speech across European statute books, |
| 0:47.3 | none of them agree. No one knows what it is. |
| 0:49.3 | We have a police force that is trained by a quango called the College of Policing. |
| 0:54.3 | And they've trained the police in our country to believe that it's their role to monitor |
| 0:57.7 | speech and thought and to arrest people for offensive speech. |
| 1:01.5 | This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanyi Kellick. |
| 1:04.0 | You know, I was incredibly disappointed. |
| 1:09.4 | I had scheduled this interview with Titania McGrath, and you came instead. |
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