Exploring the complexities of the 'woke' movement and its tendency to enforce norms on cultures, alongside the emergence of identity politics since the 70s and its focus on explicit markers, leading to conflicts like cultural appropriation.
Yascha Mounk and Olivier Roy discuss the rise of the French right.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Olivier Roy discuss how the new European far-right differs from the old; the French concept of laïcité, or secularism, and whether it goes too far in curtailing public religious practices; and whether a new appeal to universal values and compromise is possible in societies fragmented by identity politics.