Class and Inequality in the United States

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Class has presumably got to be one of them, alongside gendern accent race and ministy. But how does bedban relate to those other identitic catis that at this particular moment in our political history we are often thinking of a sort of rivals to class? Part of what happened in all these different places is that as their project succeed, other sources of inequality related to social treatment of identities became more visible. So rives a focus on questions like gender and race is int part a function of h success of the fight anganst class os te sen an catebury.

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.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.

If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone.

Email: podcast@persuasion.community

Website: http://www.persuasion.community

Podcast production by John T. Williams, and Brendan Ruberry

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connect with us!

Spotify | Apple | Google

Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion

Youtube: Yascha Mounk

LinkedIn: Persuasion Community