The Lies That Bind Us

Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses identity.

29th October 2018

| Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

1,479 words

Read time: approx. 7 mins

"And now what will become of us without barbarians? / Those people were a kind of solution."

—C. P. Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians” (1898)

Kwame Anthony Appiah
29th October 2018

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APA	Appiah, K. (2018, October 29). The Lies That Bind Us.IAI News. /articles/the-lies-that-bind-us-auid-1161
MLA	Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "The Lies That Bind Us." IAI News, 29 October 2018. /articles/the-lies-that-bind-us-auid-1161