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Yascha Mounk

On the “poverty of anti-wokeness”

John Fea   |  January 2, 2024

Over at Compact, writer Geoff Shullenberger reviews five books on “wokeness.” They are: Frederik deBoer, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement Richard Hanania, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics Yascha […]

“Don’t let right-wing culture warriors obscure the fact that some ideas behind this progressive ideology have genuine problems.”

John Fea   |  September 26, 2023

Last week we called your attention to Yascha Mounk’s new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time. Today we want to call your attention to a Mounk piece at The Atlantic based on the […]

Yascha Mounk on identity politics

John Fea   |  September 22, 2023

Mounk, a defender of liberal values and a political scientist at Johns Hopkins, is the author of Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time. Jonathan Kay interviews him at Quilette. Here is a taste: Jonathan Kay: […]

A defender of liberalism and academic freedom opposes Ron DeSantis’s “anti-woke” agenda

John Fea   |  March 8, 2023

Here is a clip from the end of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s “State of the State” yesterday: I’ll let writer and political scientist Yascha Mounk, a defender of liberal values and academic freedom, take it from here. His recent piece […]

The impending disaster

John Fea   |  July 5, 2022

Yascha Mounk, a political scientist at The Johns Hopkins University and defender of liberal democracy, lists five reasons why the United States may be heading for disaster. They are: “Trump is Anti-Democratic” “A Second Trump Term Would Be More Dangerous […]