Jonathan Church is an economist with over 20 years of experience in both private and public sectors, specializing in finance, statistics, and economic policy. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder. Since 2016, he has written for The Good Men Project, serves as a contributing editor at Merion West, and hosts the “Escaping Ideology” podcast, exploring culture, politics, and society.
His work has appeared in Quillette, Areo Magazine, The Washington Examiner, and other outlets. He has published poetry, short stories, and books, including Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics and Reinventing Racism, and contributed to Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology.
COMING IN MARCH 2026
Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology
Critical Social Justice or wokeism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of George Floyd’s death. In this volume, internationally acclaimed cultural critics, social political theorists, psychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics including critical race theory (CRT), identity politics, decolonialism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movements, whiteness theory, gender critical feminism, transgenderism, cancel culture, antizionism/antisemitism, postmodern epistemology, the free speech debate, and political authoritarianism. This is the first book of its kind to offer a scholarly critique of the social justice ideology that has saturated our modern times, stoked by polarization and societal division, fomenting discord, radical politics, censorship, and new forms of fascism.
Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology will be of interest to cultural theorists, philosophers, political scientists, journalists, media studies, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, religious studies, popular culture, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences.
“The economist Jonathan Church discusses DiAngelo’s theory in a well-researched, objective analysis. It is not a tirade by a far-right trogdolyte but a sober assessment of her thesis, leaning heavily on data and research which support his response – something I appreciate because Di Angelo has the irritating habit of making a statement and then moving on without even the slightest attempt at motivating the statement or – most importantly – supplying supportive data.”
“Economist and prolific writer Jonathan D. Church’s forthcoming book Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think about Racial Inequality provides a definitive and fair-minded analysis of White Fragility, and a powerful bulwark against DiAngelo’s most poisonous claims.”