The Constitutional Formality of Moslems in Norway Is the Important Thing

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Moslems in norway shouldn't find themselves saying, you know, you've organized this society in such a way that it's really hard for me to do something that's really important for me. And i'm sure that in the airport in oslow, there's somewhere where moslem can pray. It may be a christian chapel, but they're not excluded. So i used to be a bit more of a hard liner about establish ment, but as long as it's consistent with this form of neutrality, i don't even care about establishment. What I care about is that nobody feels,. as a citizen of a certain identity, that when they complain that they're being burdened

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, the Ethicist columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and one of today's deepest thinkers about the nature of identity. His scholarly writing, journalism, and novels help us to envision a world in which our professed categories enrich rather than impoverish—or, in his terms, a world which reveres “universality plus difference.”

In this week’s conversation, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Yascha Mounk discuss neutrality as a liberal ideal, the limits of identity politics, and the merits of race-abolitionism.

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