Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a  contributing editor at The Atlantic. He is also the author of Islamic  Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping The World and  the co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. He's been featured on  podcasts with Sam Harris, Robert Wright, Gad Saad, and many more.  Throughout our conversation we got a bit into his experience as a Muslim  in America, we briefly commented on The Intellectual Dark Web, took a  dive into some of the complications of identity politics, talked about  racism, theocracy, Christianity, and some of the unique geopolitical  complexities of Islam as a whole. Enjoy!  


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