Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology

I really do think that what we've witnessed over the last decades is the emergence of a new ideology that is meaningfully distinct... I think it really is meaningfully distinct from other forms of what is meant to be left wing in the past from other ideological traditions.
Yascha Mounk

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Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He’s a writer for The Atlantic, founder of the online magazine Persuassion, and host of the podcast The Good Fight. He is the author of The People vs Democracy (amzn.to/3LF5xtF), The Great Experiment (amzn.to/3LFbg2q), and The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time (amzn.to/454zNF2).

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:51
• Values and Beliefs - 3:15
• Higher Education - 13:56
• Identity - 22:34
• Differences from Marxism - 37:21

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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time (amzn.to/3Zyq7l8) by Yascha Mounk

The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work (amzn.to/48AndjK)by Yascha Mounk

The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It (amzn.to/3LF5xtF) by Yascha Mounk

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