How America Fell Into the Identity Trap | Yascha Mounk

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values. His new book “The Identity Trap” traces the origins of identity politics and how it’s rapidly transforming the modern world. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to discuss how identity politics grew out of postmodernism and Critical Race Theory. They talk about how postmodernists and populists are rejecting the history, institutions, and core values that make for a healthy democracy. And Yascha gives some sage advice on how to persuasively engage in debates with your political opponents.

Yascha Mounk is the author of five books, including the forthcoming “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time.” He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds appointments in both the School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. Yascha is also a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Founder of Persuasion. Follow him on Twitter at @Yascha_Mounk.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.4	Welcome back everybody.
0:25.6	If you're an elder millennial as I am, and you look at younger millennials,
0:31.6	you look at Gen Z, you've noticed something over the last decade or so,
0:35.2	which is that there's a tendency to identify by their identity,
0:41.6	whether that identity is man, woman, a non-conforming gender, or a race identity,
0:51.6	is something immutable characteristic that a lot of young people prefer to identify as,
0:57.6	as opposed to an individual, as opposed to somebody who has done something.
1:01.6	A very much fewer people, I think, identify as their career as I would.
1:07.6	I always identify as a seal.
1:09.6	I think that's because it's something I did.
1:11.6	It's people I know it's a community I come from.
1:13.6	That's changed a lot recently.
1:15.6	I think everybody has noticed it.
1:19.6	The reason I wanted to have my guest on today is Yasha Monk.
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