Yes, I've been looking forward to our dialogue, and I don't see the need to wait since we can agree to post the dialogue after you post your articles. We can keep it informal. You can email me at the address in my Medium profile to get started. I promise to keep it substantive rather than personal.

As to this semantic comment of yours on the word "woke," I'm afraid that's a dead end. The ship has sailed since words are free to change their meaning. The question is whether the newly established pejorative sense of "woke" is fair or misleading. Is there a phenomenon the pejorative sense captures? Surely, this very encounter I describe in this article testifies to that sense's merit. There are wokesters or progressives or social justice warriors whose behaviour deserves to be criticized, and we need some label to engage in that criticism. Banning labels is an Orwellian gambit.

But I don't care about labels. I use that label since it is indeed established. It's established because the apparent badness of left-wing political correctness is real. The problem with using a different word is that it can get awkward and impede communication. Elsewhere I've spoken of "left-wing political correctness" or "decadent liberalism." But the pejorative sense of wokeness is handy. Words are free to have multiple senses, and they arise organically with collective force.

What word would you use other than "woke" to describe this negative, tribal kind of left-wing politics?