IN MINORITY RULE: Adventures in the Culture War, British Left commentator Ash Sarkar seeks to expose how “minority elites” use the culture wars to stoke fear and panic in the media landscape. Over the course of her analysis, Sarkar mounts an extended criticism of contemporary identity politics on the Left. She contends that, through the kind of politics of victimhood and grievance it adopted, “the left unwittingly forged the political weapons being used against it by our political opponents”.

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