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Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Trial Show Identity Politics Is Eating Itself, Boston Globe Columnist Says

October 23, 2018

Elizabeth Warren’s much-pilloried DNA test rollout and Harvard’s continuing admissions trial show that identity politics is eating itself, says former Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson.

“Savor last week. It may mean that we have reached a long overdue turning point,” Ferguson writes in a column in The Boston Globe.

Ferguson cites evidence from a new study that many people in the “exhausted majority” are fed up with identity politics and aren’t happy about racial set-asides, either. These are people in the middle of the political spectrum, according to the October 2018 study, called Hidden Tribes:  A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape.