Author Mark Lilla reflects on how identity politics fractures the Left
I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying glass in the sun, and occasionally like the person holding the glass. That gaining a robust understanding of what it means to be the race, gender, age, economic status I am, and having the sexual and gender orientation I have was not only not doing anything about the problems that scared me the most in the world, but were maybe making them worse.