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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Self reservations: The problem with identity politics – Ros Taylor talks to Yascha Mounk
Description: How important is your identity to your political beliefs? Yascha Mounk, the author of The Identity Trap argues that over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture has transformed into an obsession. He joins Ros Taylor in the Bunker to explain why he thinks we need to move beyond individuality for the collective good.
“I don’t think woke is a useful term.” - Yascha Mounk
“There's a set of new ideas that are largely untested, but have taken on tremendous power very quickly,” - Yascha Mounk
“There have been some very prominent stories of people paying high a...