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— Mark Lilla’s new book The Once And Future Liberal: After Identity Politics is out today from Harper.
Mark Lilla Is Getting Identity Politics All Wrong Appealing to voters' tribal instincts is a time-honored American tradition. Because it works.
“In America, institutional politics can always, at some point, undo whatever gains are made through movement politics,” said Mark Lilla during his lecture Thursday night. As part of the Reaffirming ...
This professor set off a war of words over “identity politics.” We debated him. This Columbia professor criticized the Clinton campaign for being fixated on diversity — and the critics pounced.
Mark Lilla’s Book Criticizes Identity Politics, but Falls Short on Proposing an Alternative The column that spawned a thousand hot takes is now a book.
In "The Once And Future Liberal," Mark Lilla expands on his controversial New York Times op-ed, argues against identity politics, and calls for a return to classical liberalism.
Why won’t liberals give up identity politics? Even if it doesn’t win elections, it has given them a sort of cultural hegemony. Barton Swaim reviews “The Once and Future Liberal” by Mark Lilla.
Mark Lilla has become the face of the anti-identity politics crusade that has roiled some liberals and progressives since last fall’s election.
You might remember that last November Mark Lilla published an article in the New York Times titled, “The End of Identity Liberalism” in which he argued for the end of so-called “identity ...
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Mark Lilla, author of the book, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, which looks at the failure of American liberalism over the past two generations.
Identity politics is illiberal, argues Mark Lilla. Liberals might also do the math and note that most of the U.S. population is white and half of it male.
While agreeing with Lilla on how identity politics is changing the Democratic Party, Larmore said it is an overgeneralization to say that identity politics is taking over the party. Disagreeing with ...