In The Identity Trap (Penguin Random House, 2023), Mounk argues that although appreciating the cultural diversity is vital for our democracy, a new ideology is on the rise: one that puts too much emphasis on group identity, and in doing so, deepens polarization and threatens democracy.
Mounk is a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge (BA, History) and Harvard University (PhD, Government). He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds appointments in both the School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute.
He is also a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Moynihan Public Fellow at City College of New York. He is the founder of the Substack Persuasion, host of The Good Fight podcast, and serves as a publisher (Herausgeber) at Die Zeit.