The Spiritual Quest of Identity Politics

Today we're talking with Joshua Mitchell about his latest book, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time. It's my honor to welcome Josh Mitchell to the program. He's one of our best thinkers and writers about politics. In the academic discipline of political theory, he's the author of a number of books and numerous essays and reviews, including Tocqueville in Arabia, which I reviewed at Law & Liberty, which was an account Mitchell provided of his teaching of Tocqueville's democracy in America to students largely from the Middle East when he was at Georgetown's campus, I think it was in Doha. Josh, we're glad to welcome you to the program and to discuss American Awakening.