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In a recent book that serves as a paean to the life and work of Jacques Lacan, Élisabeth Roudinesco (2014) comments on the individualism, pragmatism, contempt for thinking, immediacy, and other ills that she views as characteristic of contemporary Western societies. She suggests that the “rise of populism in Europe, and the attraction it holds for some intellectuals who openly advocate racism, xenophobia, and nationalism, is probably not unconnected to this state of affairs” (p. 3). The excesses of “wild capitalism” and religious fanaticism, she adds, have further spurred a “retreat into identity” (p. 3). Although elements of this retreat into identity are visible in the successful Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom, and in the resurgence of populism and hardline immigration policies in parts of Europe, nowhere is this retreat clearer, perhaps, than in the presidential campaign and current presidency of Donald Trump in the United States. The revival of white supremacist ideology during the presidential campaign by Trump—the very person who had earned notoriety by challenging the legitimacy of the U.S. birth origin of the nation's first African American president—accompanied by an undertone of violence and explicit racism at Trump campaign rallies, serves as a reminder that any harbingers of change during the supposedly postracial Obama era were short-lived, or probably illusory. The continued income and opportunity gap between Whites and African Americans in the United States, as well as a continuing toll of shootings of Black boys and men, suggests that the core racial problem in the United States remains unresolved. The white supremacist, Nazi, and Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, graphically documented by Vice News (Vice, 2017), leaves no doubt that white supremacists, anti-Semites, and racists are emboldened, as they would have it, “to take our country back.” The apparent permission for this emboldenment was confirmed when Pres