Identity politics is not over, it's going to intensify: the ancient roots of identity politics

Is the dominance of identity politics over? Yesterday, we published an article which claimed that it is. But today pioneering political scientist Jean-Paul Faguet argues that we should expect identity politics to get even more intense and dangerous. Class-based politics is giving way to identitarian politics, and the rise of a tribal, nativist populism is only accelerating this shift. This should be no surprise, he argues: politics organised around class interests which cut across ethnic boundaries was always a historical anomaly. In the broad sweep of human history, identity politics has been the norm.