Who Is to Blame For ‘Identity Politics’?
Reflections on the book ‘The Once and Future Liberal’
11 min readMar 29, 2021
I read Mark Lilla’s The Once and Future Liberal (2017) shortly after it was published, and since then I have contemplated the argument against so-called “identity politics.” I think the 2017 round of this argument has successfully been put to bed by the election of Joe Biden, but, for the record, here’s…