The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time (Mounk Yascha)(Pevná vazba)

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America--and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice. But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology that wants to put each citizen's matrix of identities at the very center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential. It denies that members of different
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