Peter Boghossian: The solution to left-wing ideological capture is not a right-wing institution. That is my concern with what’s happening in universities right now. Lots of people are trying to restore free speech and sanity there. The way we accomplish that is not by putting right-wing ideologues in charge. It is not by extirpating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices and staffing them with right-wing maniacs – who will have their own version of political correctness or blasphemy. I see this happening more and more and I am deeply concerned about it.

I was in Hungary for four months last year and I got to know many people there on both the left and the right. The left despises prime minister Viktor Orbán, but here’s what’s really interesting. I had dinner with one of Orbán’s main political opponents. One thing I learnt was that many people on the left in Hungary also despise wokeism, because it gives Orbán something to be right about. I thought that was incredibly profound. Conservatives and Republicans are using the public’s distaste for wokeism – something they’re clearly correct about – to push their own narratives and agendas. We need to be incredibly mindful of that.