History.

What does this make you think of?

Swords, armor, castles, cannons, trenches, tanks, tanks?

Or perhaps it makes you think of bravery, courage, resistance.

We shall fight on the beaches and in the streets.

Uncover a thousand years of incredible defensive stories, a brand new series defending Europe

Mondays at nine on National Geographic.

I often joke that a lot of humanities courses and a lot of humanities

discourse seems to act as though the goal of reading is a kind of

find the racism treasure hunt where you approach a text and point out all the

things that are problematic about it.

And that doesn't mean that that's not valuable and it doesn't mean that there's not a place within

humanity scholarship and discourse to talk about the weird racial politics of a play like Shakespeare's a fellow or

whatever that's not what it means at all but it does mean that we seem to have abandoned

some of the key mission of defending these texts on the basis of their arithmetic merits.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Today I want to return to taking you on my audio tour of my new book of the

identity trap. We are now for those if you have lost track in part three of the book, the part where I critically

examine many of the applications of the identity synthesis to our social norms and practices.

And in particular we are at Chapter 11, which is looking at the rise of what I call progressive separatism in many of our institutions

and the case for integration. Very briefly, we've seen a real trend towards new forms of separatism in institutions that are actually dominated by the

progressive left.

Whether this is re-segregated dorms in some university campuses. Whether this is affinity groups, sometimes

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