Mark Lilla 
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SOURCE: Salon
9-2-17
Mark Lilla’s book against identity politics continues to draw the fire of liberals
by Jim Sleeper
One line of attack: He’s playing into the hands of a well-funded conservative campaign to highlight examples of political correctness that distract us from real injustices.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
8-25-17
The New Yorker interviews Mark Lilla about his controversial critique of identity politics
He says identity politics works for the right but not the left.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-15-17
Yale’s Beverly Gage slams Columbia’s Mark Lilla’s polemic in the New York Times Book Review
by Beverly Gage
"This is a shame, because he identifies some truly important questions that liberals and leftists of all stripes will have to face together.”
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SOURCE: The way of improvement leads home
12-15-16
Columbia’s Mark Lilla Strikes Again
by John Fea
In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Ed he says: "Diversity as a social goal and aim of social reform is an excellent thing. But identity politics today isn’t about group belonging; it’s about personal identity."
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