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Yascha Mounk
October 26, 2023
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Yascha Mounk’s Woke Straw Man
His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.
July 13, 2022
Ian Beacock
Yascha Mounk’s Misguided War on Wokeness
“The Great Experiment” flatters liberal readers that by expressing their distaste for cancel culture, they have become diverse democracy’s most gallant defenders.
July 8, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Problem With Yascha Mounk’s Persuasion
His new platform aims “to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.” But is it really just obsessed with cancel culture?
June 22, 2017
Clio Chang
How the Rhetoric of Responsibility Hurts the Welfare State
Yascha Mounk's new book charts the rise of an approach that punishes the poor.
May 16, 2017
David Zweig
David Brooks and the Tyranny of Data
The New York Times columnist has a habit of mangling research. But his use of skewed data is indicative of a broader malady.
November 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
Do millennials hate democracy?
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