The demands of identity now direct world politics. Nation, religion, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader ideas of who we are. The result? An increase in anti-immigrant sentiment, campus violence, and the return of white supremacy. IDENTITY is an urgent book: a warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we're doomed to continual conflict. Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018.