Identity Politics
Utopian dreams and totalitarian nightmares
Identity politics follow the same logic as racism and homophobia
Flawed analysis of illiberal culture
d’Ancona is guilty of the same kind of arrogance and bad faith he identifies in other liberals
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
A gendered soul?
The trans debate was less toxic when it was a process, not an identity
Breaking down the gender wars
Kathleen Stock’s new book is exactly the kind of forensic, generous intervention the ongoing trans debate sorely needs
Is Foucault responsible for identity politics?
The pseudo-Foucault distorts Foucauldian doctrine not in pursuit of truth, but as a strategy of power
How to fix our broken justice system
In a world of superficial identity politics, Alexandra Wilson’s book offers a nuanced narrative
Why we need a common faith
Is there any clear route out of the philosophical modernity and nihilism that plague our reality?
Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family
James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon
The hidden trauma of identity politics
How did identity come to be political and cultural ground zero?