Yasacha Mounk. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374157531
A child of Polish Holocaust survivors, Mounk writes of growing up as a Jew in Germany—a “strange and slightly mysterious outsider”— and about the situation generally of Germany’s postwar Jewish population. He notes that until the showing of the...
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Yascha Mounk. Penguin Press, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-29681-3
Accommodating migrants and racial and religious minorities in democratic countries is a difficult but necessary project, according to this hopeful meditation on a multicultural world. Political scientist Mounk (The People vs. Democracy) explores the
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Yascha Mounk. Penguin Press, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-49318-2
In this poorly argued polemic, political scientist Mounk (The Great Experiment) offers an intellectual history of “identity synthesis”—a term of his own devising, which is hard to distinguish from the more familiar “identity politics”—and warns of...
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