Is There Such a Thing as Lived Experience?

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In the united states, as people of different religions migrate in, is that their form of religious life actually americanized. The hard jewish Americans to assimilate are the ultra orthodox who have made fewer compromises with America. So i think we should push back a little bit on things which turn out to be less important than they were originally inclined to think. And it's not just in turkey atterloa where this kind of developing toleration is important. In europeans and scandinavian monarchs all lutherans and lutherans are constitutionally entitled to freedom of religion. But in abudabi you would say ‘you're crazy’ - but

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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