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The Brendan O'Neill Show

255: Yascha Mounk: The identity trap

The Brendan O'Neill Show

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk joins Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, The Identity Trap. Yascha and Brendan discuss what ‘woke’ really means, the ideological roots of identity politics, and whether populism can save democracy.

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0:45.3

of going to find the right direction. I think it's actually going in the wrong direction.

0:48.9

Now education has to encourage students to define themselves as racial beings.

0:55.0

You shouldn't teach students that they have things in common,

0:58.0

that they should stand some of their data with each other,

1:00.0

no, that they should define themselves as strongly as possible by the particular group to which they belong.

1:05.6

Separating kids by race does not get us closer to a better world.

1:09.6

It's not going too far in creating a better world, world is creating a worse world.

1:16.2

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill and my special

1:20.5

guests this week Yasha Monk.

1:22.1

Yasha, welcome to the show.

1:23.7

Thank you so much.

1:24.6

So Yasha, let's talk about your new book,

1:27.2

The Identity Trap, A Story of Ideas and Power

1:30.6

in Our Time.

1:32.1

This is a book about identity politics, although you don't really call it that, you call it the identity synthesis and I want to come back to that and ask you what you mean by that term.

1:40.0

But I think that a lot of people will appreciate this book because it really is a history of ideas.

1:44.6

You really dig down into the ideas, the historical ideas, the cultural ideas, the political thinking,

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