What do we owe the stranger? – with Seyla Benhabib
What happens when liberal democracies stop seeing dignity as a universal right and begin treating it as something reserved for insiders?
On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with political philosopher Seyla Benhabib to explore the moral, political, and philosophical stakes of migration, borders, and belonging in America today.
Against the backdrop of rising cruelty toward immigrants, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable people, they examine what happens when states retreat from their highest ideals and redraw the boundaries
of who counts. Together, they discuss the fragility of human rights, the
difference between borders and belonging, and why Jews—shaped by memories of statelessness, displacement, and exclusion—must take these questions seriously.
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