On this episode of Nootsworld, the Cultural Wars, Wokeness, Identity Politics, there are

heated discussions right now around these terms, but very little understanding what these

ideas actually mean.

In is New Book, the Identity Trap, a story of ideas and power in our time.

Yashamunk delivers one of the most incisive explorations of a divisive debate that has

come to dominate everything from our politics, our academic institutions, our legal system,

our media, and corporate America.

A new set of ideas about race, gender, and sexual orientation, often referred to as Woke, has

spread so rapidly in the past decade we have barely had time to consider its merits in

a serious manner.

Most people either celebrate these ideas uncritically or dismiss them as obviously undeserving

of genuine engagement.

Here to discuss this new book, I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Yashamunk.

He is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, the founder

of the Digital Magazine Persuasion, a contributing editor at the Atlantic, and a senior fellow

at the Council on Foreign Relations, and obviously a very busy man.

Yasham, welcome and thank you for joining me on Newt's World.

Thank you so much, I look forward to our conversation.

Well, you were born and raised in Germany.

When and why did you come to the US?

So that's right, I grew up in Germany, I went to college in England and I first came

to the United States because I loved New York and what I wanted to live in when I spent

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