Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap

0:35 A quick announcement 1:46 What led Yascha to write about identity 6:22 An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” 12:15 What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? 19:15 From postmodernism to post-civil rights 28:45 The three key claims of identity synthesis 36:02 What led up to the summer of 2020? 45:51 The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo 50:45 Yascha’s defense of universalism Recorded October 3, 2023 Links and Readings Yascha’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time Michel Foucault’s book, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences Edward Said’s book, Orientalism Gayatri Spivak’s essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Glenn’s debate with Kmele Foster, Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, and Reihan Salam Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life Tommie Shelby’s book, We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault’s 1971 debate on Dutch television Derrick Bell’s book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism Derrick Bell’s essay, “Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation” Mahalia Jackson singing “We Shall Overcome” Roy D’Andrade’s article, “Moral Models in Anthropology”

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