By Kwame Anthony Appiah (2018)
This is wonderful, just so clear and wholesome in a discussion of a subject – identity – which can of course be pretty fraught.
It belongs to that rare class of writing where the language is so crisp and readable, you barely notice you’re being lead to some really philosophically interesting places. I particularly like his take on meritocracy, which is an idea that exercises me a lot. He does talk quite a lot about himself – but then he’s had such an interesting life and background, I hardly blame him.