The Identity Trap A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

I actually did get this from Yasha Monk has a great book called The Identity Trap and Yasha points out that a trap has to have bait in it that's attractive. There has to be something that makes the creature want to go into the trap and then once they get the bait, there has to be something that prevents them from leaving.

It is The Identity Trap by our good friend Yasha Mounk, and it's going to generate an awful lot of buzz because he goes at the whole question of illiberalism from the left and wokeism from the left, but from a center-left perspective.

America's academic, cultural, and political institutions went insane beginning around 2014. . . This new book, The Identity Trap, Yasha Mounk explains how a few powerfully bad ideas propelled through institutions by people with good intentions are causing systemic dysfunction and dangerous polarization.

This is among the most insightful and important books written in the last decade on American democracy and its current torments because it also shows us a way out of the trap.

In this indispensable book, Yasha Mounk proposes an alternative to the ceaseless combat between woke and anti-woke extremes, one that takes seriously the enduring malignant legacy of systemic discrimination yet correctly identifies the universal values, not group solidarity offer the surest path to justice, fairness, and enduring social peace.

The book is The Identity Trap by Yasha Monk. . . This is an immensely important book and I hope that it gets the hearing and starts the debate that I think we so desperately need.