There’s a big market out there for hot takes and sober literature challenging ‘identity politics.’
Many an ill-conceived book and article has been written on the topic.
I addressed some of this in one of my opening posts by drawing a distinction between identity politics and identitarianism. I still think this is very useful.
But I’ll admit to being a little crotchety on these issues. I’ve never had a high tolerance for nonsense, and whatever tolerance I’ve had in the past is declining. So this isn’t going to be a post about Mark Lilla’s Once and Future Liberal (it’s likely he never was). It isn’t going to be a post about “We are the Left” (they’re mostly a group of liberal or centrist Democrats, not leftists).
This is a post about Mistaken Identity, a book by Asad Haider!
