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IDENTITY
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
218 pages; $26
THE LIES THAT BIND
Rethinking Identity: Creed, Country, Color, Class, Culture
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Liveright Publishing
256 pages; $27.95
A Japanese-American political scientist and a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher walk into a bar where a brawl over identity is underway. “Stop fighting!” the philosopher cries. “The identities you’re fighting for are lies.” The political scientist steps forward. “They’re not lies,” he says. “They’re just the wrong identities to be fighting for!”
The scholars succeed in ending the conflict, because the
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
218 pages; $26
THE LIES THAT BIND
Rethinking Identity: Creed, Country, Color, Class, Culture
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Liveright Publishing
256 pages; $27.95
A Japanese-American political scientist and a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher walk into a bar where a brawl over identity is underway. “Stop fighting!” the philosopher cries. “The identities you’re fighting for are lies.” The political scientist steps forward. “They’re not lies,” he says. “They’re just the wrong identities to be fighting for!”
The scholars succeed in ending the conflict, because the
