And far too often, Lilla says, liberals have sacrificed such ends for what he calls “noble defeats.” Lilla’s book is The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics.

It is slowly dawning on some Democrats that their uncritical embrace of identity politics and mindless slogans like 'defund the police' cost them in this election. Mark Lilla has been trying to ...

Mary Eberstadt writes this in her new book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. The book includes responses by Rod Dreher, Mark Lilla, and Peter Thiel. She talks ...

Enlightened Democratic intellectuals, like Jonathan Haidt and Mark Lilla, have warned of the dangers stemming from overt political correctness, identity politics and the “Oppression Olympics.” ...

Ultimately, identity politics self-destructs by devouring its own. As Mark Lilla has noted, the left's identity politics can't win elections, only lose them.

I’ve hit against this myself: The shameful temptation to hide my mental lethargy by lampooning identity politics the way Christina Hoff Sommers or Tucker Carlson or Mark Lilla might—rather ...

Following the 2016 elections, liberal intellectuals like Mark Lilla and Francis Fukuyama counseled Democrats to stop embracing identity politics and instead appeal to Americans as Americans, not ...

Columbia University professor Mark Lilla (left) urged students to get involved in politics in a discussion moderate by Center for the Political Future co-director Mike Murphy (right). (Sinead ...

Or, as Mark Lilla put it in his 2017 book The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, “as soon as you cast an issue exclusively in terms of identity you invite your adversary to do the ...

Mark Lilla, a political scientist, journalist and professor at Columbia University, discusses the national conversation sparked by his book, "The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics ...

In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, in a New York Times essay titled, “The End of Identity Liberalism,” liberal Columbia University professor Mark Lilla chided liberals and ...

Mark Lilla stirred up quite the hornets nest back in November 2016 when he wrote that liberals need to reject identity politics. He followed that up with a book on the topic titled, The Once and ...