Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America (Hardcover) by Stephen Prothero

from MichaelC.Oliveira

The acceptance of the concept of culture wars empowers conservatives and blinds many in the general public that we have more in common than our differences. I was hoping for a complete discussion of the power of language and how conservatives have repeatedly framed the arguments to their electora...

from Janientrelac

An optimistic book, a good read right after Brexit, I think he cherry picks his examples but I can't think of a contrary example, one where conservatives rolled back a social advance. Very like Pinker's Better Angels of our Nature

from pomo58

In Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars... Stephen Prothero presents a very well researched and argued thesis. By choosing 5 instances of a culture war, one being the rather long current war, Prothero demonstrates that each follow the same general outline. The first two steps represent the peak of t...

from pomo58

In Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars... Stephen Prothero presents a very well researched and argued thesis. By choosing 5 instances of a culture war, one being the rather long current war, Prothero demonstrates that each follow the same general outline. The first two steps represent the peak of t...