What's the Cultural Shift?

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i was born in 19 80 twointe eighties and nineties, im certainlyo we left. It seems to me that now one of the salient features of the left is that a flipped thut the same look. And it does seem to be a kind of cultural shift, doesn't it n? i share that any attempt to try and reduce treatment and identification in bosh ways is a fool's errandor asi actually morally bad.

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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