President Obama heralds a new politics of dignity. Dignitarian politics transcends traditional libertarian and egalitarian politics to embrace equal dignity for all. Programmatically, the politics of dignity means (1) overcoming rankism in all its guises; (2) taking the damage done by malrecognition as seriously as we take the ravages of malnutrition; (3) seeing rankism as uncool; and (4) regarding malrecogniton as reversible and avoidable.