An overview of the various topics covered in part three of the book 'The Identity Trap', including cultural appropriation, free speech, progressive separatism, education, equity, structural racism, the trans debate, and meritocracy.
Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss how to reflect on a life lived well.
Martha Nussbaum is a philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Nussbaum is the author of many books, including, most recently, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss the need for an overlapping consensus between citizens of profoundly different beliefs; how regarding animals as sentient beings might change our behavior towards them; and why one ought to be a “happy warrior” for moral causes.