This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary talk to Olúfemi Táíwò, author and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown, about tokenism, reparations, how the powerful have appropriated identity politics and turned it into a tool of division, and more. Taiwo is the author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations and a real-life philosopher.

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A holistic, irreverent, honest look at the climate crisis and all the ways media and society are talking—and not talking—about it.

S3, Ep24 | Reclaiming Identity Politics, with Olufemi Taiwo

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