Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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| 0:40.2 | It's late. You're almost home after catching that concert you and your friend's snack tickets to |
| 0:44.8 | with MX months ago. You're all speechless from the last hour spent singing your hearts out, |
| 0:49.8 | and the only thing playing in the car is the last song of the night, on a full blast, in your head. |
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| 1:01.1 | Looks like you're getting goosebumps all over again. When the night's a hit, that's when you're with |
| 1:05.9 | MX. American Express. Don't live life without it. Do you respect the group identity or do you |
| 1:13.1 | respect people as individuals? The moment that you shade over into that belief that it's the group |
| 1:19.6 | that you're respecting, that's when identity politics begins to really seriously conflict with |
| 1:25.5 | some basic principles of a liberal society. |
| 1:40.0 | Hello, welcome to Asa Clanchon, the box media podcast network. My guest this week is Francis |
| 1:44.3 | Fukuyama. He's very well known for the broad end of history hypothesis and book and article, |
| 1:50.6 | but he just wrote a new book called Identity, which is all about identity and the modern conception |
| 1:55.4 | of identity and how that feeds into identity politics and whether all of that is threatening the |
| 1:59.5 | stability of modern liberal democracies. This is a question and a conversation about one of my |
| 2:06.0 | favorite topics, which is whether or not all politics is actually identity politics. As always, |
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