“National politics in healthy periods is not about ‘difference’, it is about commonality”
National politics in healthy periods is not about “difference,” it is about commonality. And...
Tag Archives: Identity Politics
“…if race becomes an irreducible category in politics, rather than being incorporated into universal claims of justice, it’s a weapon that can be picked up and used by anyone”
I recently spoke with the social scientist Glenn Loury, who teaches at Brown University....
“Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it”
The media’s newfound, almost anthropological, interest in the angry white male reveals as much...
“In recent years, our society, and our college campuses, have been infused by an approach to identity politics that…seems to be struggling with…tension of humility and arrogance”
As we learn about ourselves and one another through talking and listening and being...