Defending identity: its indispensable role in protecting democracy

Who Is Better Prepared To Confront Challenges And Defend Principles In A Volatile Modern World? Those With Strong National, Religious, Ethnic, Or Tribal Identities Who Accept Democracy, Or Democrats Who Renounce Identity As A Kind Of Divisive Prejudice? Natan Sharansky, Building On His Personal Experience As A Dissident, Argues That Valueless Cosmopolitanism, Even In Democracies, Is Dangerous. Better To Have Hostile Identities Framed By Democracy Than Democrats Indifferent To Identity. In A Vigorous, Insightful Challenge To The Left And Right Alike, Natan Sharansky, As He Has Proved Repeatedly, Is At The Leading Edge Of The Issues That Frame Our Times.