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We should be careful about where we ask for things that deviate from universal principles,

particularly from a Jewish perspective, just as other groups are vigorously protected

from discrimination. We should demand that we be vigorously protected from discrimination.

We should demand that we be vigorously protected from discrimination.

But when it comes to things like protection from the disgusting speech of others,

we're better off to say that is one of the rights that we have as Americans to engage in speech,

some of it disgusting speech.

But we'd rather live with that than with a society where those in power make decisions about

what can be said and what can't be said

and politics devolves into a competition

for who gets to interpret the rules.

I don't think that that is good for the future of our country

and I don't think that the Jews are going to win that fight.

Thank you. And I don't think that the Jews are going to win that fight. Welcome to part two of my conversation with Yasha Monk.

Yasha, I want to pick right up where I teased we would be going here.

You've been a sharp critic of identity politics.

We've gotten into some of that in this conversation or in part one of the conversation.

And it's corruption of the American left.

And the danger poses to America's classically liberal democracy.

You have said and you've written about how what you as a liberal

think of as liberalism and what you kind of came of age with in your liberal worldview is not

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