The New Dark Age

How I’m Organizing My Life this Fall | Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport, 7 September 2026. The book comes up at 49 min 2 sec in.

Cal Newport reports finishing this book by Oxford ethicist Nigel Biggar, describing it as a polemical critique of the initial woke period and its damage to universities. Newport admires the Oxbridge writing style -- simultaneously conversational, erudite, and cutting -- which he finds American writers rarely match, and says he enjoyed the book despite feeling that woke one has broadly already been acknowledged as excessive.

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