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If You Don’t Find Your Identity in a Family, You’ll Look For It in the  Primal Screams  of Identity Politics

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.

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