Lean Out with Tara Henley
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The Identity Trap
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The Identity Trap

My conversation with author and Johns Hopkins professor Yascha Mounk - for the 100th episode of the Lean Out podcast
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Between the years of 2010 and 2020, a new way of thinking about identity travelled from elite universities, to Internet subcultures, to social media, and to mainstream media, finally landing at many of our most important social, cultural, and governmental institutions, transforming longstanding rules and norms.

My guest on today’s program is among the first to take a comprehensive look at the roots of this ascendent ideology and how it became so influential — and today we’ll hear why he believes it is ultimately a trap.

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Yascha Mounk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the founder of Persuasion. His new book is The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time.

Yascha Mounk is my guest, for the 100th episode of Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.

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Lean Out with Tara Henley
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Conversations with heterodox authors and journalists from around the world, asking the questions that are not being asked.