Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition, by Francis Fukuyama

A thinker revisits democracy’s power to unite in light of populism’s rise, writes Martin Cohen

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November 15, 2018

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Print headline: Can we make one out of many?

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