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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Inspecting The Machinery of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Writer and Scholar Laurent Dubreuil
Description: We hear about "identity" so often now that the word no longer carries much meaning. By extension, the term "identity politics" has become a culture war cudgel, recklessly deployed by race baiters on the right as well as some activists on the social justice left. But Laurent Dubreuil, a professor of literature and cognitive science at Cornell University, has studied identity in ways that plunge far deeper than standard discussions about tribalism and narcissism. He's interested in what an identity-based worldview-and the technology that feeds it- is actually, physiologically, doing to our brains. Â In this conversation, Laurent talks with Meghan a...