Commentary Identity politics—the formation of exclusive alliances based on racial, religious, ethnic, or social identity—is manifesting in all cultural corners. It has seeped into school curricula and overtaken traditional Western individualism as the new dominant lens for interpreting one’s place in society. Entire university departments have been rededicated to examining so-called intersectionality, defined as the complex way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination, such as racism, sexism, and classism, combine to determine individual experience. As even Homer gets nixed from curricula, the traditional study of humanities has been rededicated to parsing out layers of oppression. The purpose of this identity obsession has some noble intentions at its foundation: highlighting the roots of disparities and fostering a sense of community, to name a few. Drawing attention to the interests of historically excluded groups initially had the attention of promoting inclusion, but, in its current iteration, identity politics does just the opposite. This …