The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

by Yascha Mounk

face structural obstacles, like unpaid internships, that make it harder for first-generation college students to break into influential fields from politics to the arts.

the historical mission of the left consisted in expanding the circle of human sympathy across the boundaries of family, tribe, religion, and ethnicity.

“law is subjective,” “neutrality is political,” “words are actions,” and “racism is permanent.”

the center of gravity on the left swung from class and economics to culture and identity.

I have “my truth”—one that you have no right to question or critique on the basis of supposedly objective facts, especially if you do not belong to the same marginalized identity group.