A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, September 2, 2018

WHAT ARE YOU?

Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (New York: Liveright, 2018) (From the book jacket: "Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another. What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contents to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods.").