The American left won the culture wars, but neoliberalism destroyed the battlefield.
Historian Andrew Hartman explores the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s as a battleground for ownership of a stake in the American identity, the splintering of the coercive illusion of a white, Christian “normative America,” and explains why values lost value in the neoliberal economic revolution.
Andrew’s new book is A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars.
Andrew Hartman
Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. He is also the coeditor of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times. His most recent book is Karl Marx in America.
