The Identity Trap

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Sam Harris speaks with Yascha Mounk about identity politics. They discuss Yascha's concept of the "identity synthesis," skepticism about "cancel culture," racial segregation in schools, the ideological change on college campuses, Michel Foucault and postmodernism, th ...

Brett sits down with two university professors of sociology and a masters candidate in sociology to discuss the issues of intersectionality, the weaknesses of class-less identity politics and of class reductionism, the influence of Karl Marx on the field of sociology, Malcolm X a ...  Afficher plus

In Loudoun County, Va., a fierce debate has been raging for months inside normally sleepy school board meetings.

At the heart of this anger is critical race theory, a once obscure academic framework for understanding racism in the United States.

How, exactly, did c ...

Vox’s Sean Illing talks with professor and media researcher Nikki Usher about her new book News for the Rich, White, and Blue, which documents systemic problems in the ways journalists and institutions decide what counts as news and whom the news is for. They discuss racial, gend ...  Afficher plus