The Identity TrapOne of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming Americaand explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals. For much of 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

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In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians

Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft

Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends

That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people

essayist and critic Mieko Kanai – whose work enjoys a cult status in Japan – is a disconcerting and radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage capitalist society

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a comprehensive chronology

John Searle writes

and how activists and their organizations can become more resistant to the influence of elites

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