. How, then, to make sense of the interminable shelf-life of Lilla’s commentary? How should we position and analyze Lilla’s comments as a themselves a product of the current political climate, rather than simply arbitrarily and neutrally commenting upon it?Discuss
In 2016 Columbia professor and historian, Mark Lilla, published an opinion piece in The New York Times. The piece quickly became the “most-read” article of the year and sparked an instant controversy and conversation regarding what he termed “our age of identity liberalism”. In the body of the piece Lilla argued that one of the […]