Debating the Politics of Identity

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 22, 2016

Mark Lilla, professor of the humanities at Columbia University, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and author of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (New York Review Books, 2016), and George Yancy, professor of philosophy at Emory University and the author of  Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, discuss identity politics as played out during the 2016 elections season.

 

 

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