Another on-the-nose piece about rampant identity politics in America from UnHerd.

“We live in a time of ideological exhaustion. Our doctrines and ideals lie broken in pieces all around us and never fit into a whole. Jagged bits of Marxism and anarchism, nationalism and liberalism, clutter the landscape, tear at our feet and impede our way as we stagger onward in search of some promised land. Yet there can be no promised land, no future, no past, in such a psychotic jumble of first principles. All we can muster is rage at the structures around us, so inexplicably shattered, and the urge not to repair but to obliterate them totally — to negate them into dust.”

As for the State’s agitation and interjections, here’s the punchline:

“How does this work? The first step is simple enough. Government must intervene in every transaction to assure equal outcomes.”