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Source: The New Yorker

8-25-17

The New Yorker interviews Mark Lilla about his controversial critique of identity politics

He says identity politics works for the right but not the left.

Source: NYT

8-15-17

Yale’s Beverly Gage slams Columbia’s Mark Lilla’s polemic in the New York Times Book Review

by Beverly Gage

"This is a shame, because he identifies some truly important questions that liberals and leftists of all stripes will have to face together.”