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Yascha Mounk
The origins, consequences and limitations of identity politics- an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world
For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious…
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* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 *
‘Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book’ ANNE APPLEBAUM
One of our most important political…
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From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy-individual rights and the popular will-are at war, putting democracy…
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The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world.
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One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how…
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As a Jew in post war Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked…
[A] brave and necessary book … Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book. -Anne Applebaum
A convincing, humane, and…
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Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens…
One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer
"[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else…
"One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America-and explains why it will fail to…
