If you were to write an intellectual history of mainstream political discourse of the last 10-20 years (not of academic thinkers, but like public intellectuals who write in The Atlantic, etc.) where would you start in terms secondary sources? (1/2)

Which figures would you focus on and do a close read of? Broad question, I know. I'm not sure the direction yet, but I'm thinking of teasing apart various strands of left-wing thought to see how we get to the landscape we are in now. (2/3)

For example, how discussions about balancing free speech and antiracism evolved over this time and how the concept of antiracism itself evolved and became more mainstream. Where the battle lines of the "culture wars" have shifted and evolved. (3/4)

How the leftist, centrist, and identity politics (loaded term I know -- I welcome a better one) wings of the left evolved, at times in tension and other times in harmony. And note I'm talking about all of this in the context of the battleground of ideas, not actual politics(4/4)