Identity Politics Is Destroying the Social Fabric

Statues are on display at the Louvre Lens museum during the press visit of the exhibition about Greek poet Homer, in Lens, northen France, on March 26, 2019. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Identity politics—the formation of exclusive alliances based on racial, religious, ethnic, or social identity—is manifesting in all cultural corners. It has seeped into school curricula and overtaken traditional Western individualism as the new dominant lens for interpreting one’s place in society.