Why We Walk on Eggshells: How Our Civil Rights Laws Have Made It Hard to Talk Sensibly About Race and Sex

Political and social movements seldom appear out of nowhere. They have roots.

Some of the Woke Era’s roots lie in our civil rights laws.

By prohibiting discrimination, these laws were intended calm tensions among the races and between the sexes. And they’ve had a lot of success. But some civil rights laws—whether because they were not well thought out or because the Supreme Court bent over backwards to misinterpret them—have had the opposite effect.

A prime example is the Civil Rights Act of...