You're listening to The Parsley Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

said I'm doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 328 is something like, what role should demographic group identities

play in ethics and policy, or perhaps, how do philosophical ideas become popular ideology?

If you read the identity trap, a new book by Yasha Mouk, about which we will be talking

to the author himself.

For more information about this book in the podcast, please see ParsleyExaminedLife.com.

My name is Mark Linton-Meier, a aspiring ally to the much more lined group known as philosophers.

This is Wes Longwan, appealing to my identity in support of epistemic claims and Cambridge

Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey opting out of the Twitter penopticon in Madison, Wisconsin.

At our special guest, introduce yourself.

I'm Yasha Mouk trying to convince you to have dangerous thoughts about identity in Chicago

Illinois right now.

Oh, you're close by.

We've just a couple hours from Madison.

I've never been to Madison.

It's one of the American cities I'm missing.

And both Mark and I are in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is a little unusual for us, besides the fact that we don't cover authors reading

themselves.

You're a once a year, well, we just had Thomas Selloan, but you're mostly a once a year

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