Katherine Streeter

Jan 12, 2024 | chronicle.com | Robert Huddleston |Katherine Streeter

An assortment of recent books has sought to reckon with the unnamable specter haunting the political left, especially on college campuses. Two of the most insightful, both published in the past year, are by academics who identify themselves as liberals or leftists: the political scientist Yascha Mounk’s analytically measured The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time and the philosopher Susan Neiman’s more polemically incisive Left Is Not Woke.