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“…this new ideology we’re talking about is fundamentally about forms of group identity like race, gender, and sexual orientation. It sees the world through the prism of those identities.” - L&L

Discussion

Thu, 09/28/23

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This does sound like a reallly interesting book, though.

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Fri, 09/29/23

The conversation in the article quoted was enough to get me interested in this book.

I recently finished reading “The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World,” and I’m currently about halfway through “America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.” After reading the interview, this book sounds like it would cover some of the same ground from a different perspective.

The first book I mentioned was by Andrew Doyle, a left-wing Briton who nonetheless criticizes political correctness and identity politics, and the 2nd is by Christopher Rufo, who is, of course, a conservative activist, but he does an excellent job detailing the history behind the ideas in critical theory. Mounk is more difficult to define. From what I read about him, he’s German Jew who had origins in the political center-left, but seems now to be pretty centrist. I think his take on identity politics would be worth reading. Certainly he expressed himself well enough in the interview for me to think I’d enjoy reading the book.

Dave Barnhart