Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=35s" target="_blank">0:35</a> A quick announcement</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=106s" target="_blank">1:46</a> What led Yascha to write about identity</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=382s" target="_blank">6:22</a> An intellectual history of “identity synthesis”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=735s" target="_blank">12:15</a> What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=1155s" target="_blank">19:15</a> From postmodernism to post-civil rights</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=1725s" target="_blank">28:45</a> The three key claims of identity synthesis</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=2162s" target="_blank">36:02</a> What led up to the summer of 2020?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=2751s" target="_blank">45:51</a> The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMm_fioacY&#38;t=3045s" target="_blank">50:45</a> Yascha’s defense of universalism</p><p>Recorded October 3, 2023</p><p>Links and Readings</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Identity-Trap-Story-Ideas-Power/dp/0593493184" target="_blank">Yascha’s new book, </a><em>The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Order-Things-Archaeology-Human-Sciences/dp/0679753354" target="_blank">Michel Foucault’s book, </a><em>The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Orientalism-Edward-W-Said/dp/0141187425" target="_blank">Edward Said’s book, </a><em>Orientalism</em></p><p><a href="https://abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf" target="_blank">Gayatri Spivak’s essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”</a></p><p><a href="https://glennloury.substack.com/p/kmele-foster-robert-woodson-shelby#details" target="_blank">Glenn’s debate with Kmele Foster, Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, and Reihan Salam</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racecraft-Soul-Inequality-American-Life/dp/1781683131" target="_blank">Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, </a><em>Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-Dark-Philosophical-Foundations/dp/0674025717" target="_blank">Tommie Shelby’s book, </a><em>We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity</em></p><p><a href="https://abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf" target="_blank">Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault’s 1971 debate on Dutch television</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Faces-Bottom-Well-Permanence-Racism/dp/1541645537" target="_blank">Derrick Bell’s book, </a><em>Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism</em></p><p><a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/Serving%20Two%20Masters.pdf" target="_blank">Derrick Bell’s essay, “Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W02hDYBcqU" target="_blank">Mahalia Jackson singing “We Shall Overcome”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/dandrade.pdf" target="_blank">Roy D’Andrade’s article, “Moral Models in Anthropology”</a></p> <br /><br />This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://glennloury.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">glennloury.substack.com/subscribe</a>