![]() How strange, then, to find “essentialism” being flung as an accusation in the culture war du jour, the recent controversy over critical race theory-but now as an epithet against the Left. Essentialism most often functioned as a pejorative term in left-leaning, academic parlance, naming the retrograde belief that groups, people, or identities were defined by immutable “essences”-ontological or biological substrates that determine action and behavior. ![]() As recently as a few years ago, when I was in graduate school, anyone making an “essentialist” argument was generally thought to be committing an intellectual and moral error. ![]()
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