The American left won the culture wars, but neoliberalism destroyed the battlefield.
Apr 25 2015
It was much easier for many white middle class Americans to be committed to the collective good – and this might have been signified in their willingness to pay higher taxes – when the collective good as they imagined it was a narrow, white, Christian America.
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.
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