If You Don’t Find Your Identity in a Family, You’ll Look For It in the Primal Screams of Identity Politics
September 03, 2019 | by Luma Simms
In her new book, Mary Eberstadt argues that today’s identity politics arose from the deep anthropological wound slit open by the sexual revolution. The ascent of identity politics reveals that people are having an identity crisis, and they are having an identity crisis because the sexual revolution resulted in family—and, by extension, individual—breakdown.