In "Political and Metaphysical: Reflections on Identity, Education, and Justice" (EJ1277341), Lauren Bialystok makes a nuanced and timely case for a reassessment of the moral and political significance of identity within liberal societies in general, and for education in particular. She offers an impressive philosophical reconstruction of a form of political polarization driven, in part, by the attempt to adjudicate claims of justice and fairness on identity grounds. This attempt appears to put at odds two important intuitions: that citizens should be treated as free and equal in an ideal sense, and that citizens should be recognized in their particularity in the non-ideal circumstances against which some may struggle. While Bialystok acknowledges that this conflict is a longstanding one for liberal political theory, her argument advances three important claims that show why there is reason to take this tension seriously in the educational domain. In this article, the author examines Bialystok's argument and offers his opinions and thoughts.