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255: Yascha Mounk: The identity trap

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Yascha Mounk joins Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, The Identity Trap. Yascha and Brendan discuss what ‘woke’ really means, the ideological roots of identity politics, and whether populism can save democracy.

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