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The world according to Yascha Mounk is a bleak place: In the stranglehold of a new ideology, contemporary society has abandoned the liberal tenets that once guided it, in favor of race-based segregation and discrimination. This ideology is not, as you might be thinking, that of Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. It is not the fascism of the new right. No, it is an ideology of the left. What some call “wokeism,” “identity politics,” or “cultural Marxism,” Mounk terms the “identity synthesis.” In The I

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.

The vast sums that have flowed from corporations, foundations and wealthy individuals into “antiracism” initiatives resemble the “indulgences” that, purchased from the medieval church, promised remission of punishment for sins:

The Israel-Gaza conflict has destroyed certain assumptions about the world order and pushed us closer to nihilism.

The vast sums that have flowed from corporations, foundations and wealthy individuals into “antiracism” initiatives resemble the “indulgences” that, purchased from the medieval church, promised remission of punishment for sins: