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Tue, 10 October 2023

															
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm								BST

														


							
Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap

							
A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time


						


						

						

						


							
							

							  
									

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How should we fight against the oppression of ethnic, sexual, and religious minorities? In the struggle towards equality, could the good intentions of activists backfire?


Renowned and respected by leaders in his native Germany, the US, and the UK alike, an expert on the rise of populism and the global crisis of liberal democracy, Yascha Mounk is one of the major political thinkers of our time.


Now Yascha joins How To Academy to investigate the rise of identity politics. Many who passionately believe in social justice have come to believe that members of marginalised groups need to take pride in their identity if they are to resist injustice. But for Yascha Mounk, seeking to put each citizen’s matrix identities at the heart of social, cultural and political life will not lead to liberation. It is a trap.


Yascha will trace the origin of these ideas and explore how they have won tremendous power in the past decade. He will provide a nuanced critique and make a passionate plea for universalism and humanism, arguing that in their current form, identitarian ideas set back the road to genuine equality.


This event is presented in partnership with Penguin


 


 




						
						


						
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Yascha Mounk

									
Political Scientist

								


								
Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. Born in Germany to Polish parents, Mounk received his BA in history from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and his PhD in government from Harvard University. He is now a professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. Mounk is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, the founder of the online magazine Persuasion, and a publisher of Die Zeit. He is the author of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It and The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure.




							


						


						
						


							


								


								

									
Edie Lush

									
Journalist and Broadcaster

								


								
Edie Lush is an award-winning British-American journalist, author, communication trainer, and MC. She hosts events around the globe, from the World Economic Forum in Davos to the UN General Assembly in New York to the COP Climate Summits. She has been the Economics and Political correspondent for Bloomberg Television, a columnist at The Week magazine, the Associate Editor of Spectator Business magazine and Executive Producer and Co-host of the Global GoalsCast podcast. She was an International Relations specialist for both the Secretary General of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C and Hungarian political party SZDSZ in Budapest.




							


						


											


				


			
			
			


			
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