How nostalgia fuels the culture wars
In her new book Rule, Nostalgia, Hannah Rose Woods explores how illusory and contested golden ages have haunted Britain since…
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Culture wars are ideological clashes surrounding cultural and social beliefs between groups, generally divided across the socially conservative and liberal line. The term derives from the German Kulturkampf (‘culture struggle’), referring to the clashes between the Catholic Church and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the late nineteenth century. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on culture wars here.
“We’re losing the war against disinformation”: This American Life’s Ira Glass
The host of the influential radio programme and podcast on the success of his show – and competing with Joe…
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New York’s hipster wars
Why the city’s clash of cultures between progressive Brooklyn and transgressive Manhattan marks a new era in American politics.
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Australian Labor’s victory shows how the left can neutralise the culture wars
The new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, successfully argued that Scott Morrison was fixated on reactionary talking points because he had…
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Booing the national anthem is as British as singing it
Irreverent anti-elitism is the point of post-Brexit Britain.
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“We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News
Faced with a new rival, can the channel survive? Staffers share the story of a tumultuous 12 months.
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Vladimir Putin, JK Rowling, and the difference between culture war and real war
An American debate has no place in Russia’s war, in which hundreds of people are dying each day.
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There’s a problem with university culture – but it isn’t the students
Do the grown-ups decrying today’s students really believe they never did anything when they were young that would have caused…
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Tearing down the statue of Friedrich Engels won’t help Ukraine
Russophobia is clouding our judgement.
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Climate culture war trivialises our security
The populist right fails to realise that expanding fossil fuels leave us vulnerable to Russian aggression – and would do…
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Right-wingers that judge Deborah Meaden for wearing a face mask are anti-British
The one thing that unites Britain is not caring what other people wear.
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Putin has spotted our weakness… “political correctness”
Oliver Dowden is right, the West’s obsession with “woke” issues is undoubtedly why Russia wants to go to war.
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Trans activists ask us to redefine what most consider to be truth
The subject has become so toxic and all-consuming because of people’s resistance to compelled speech.
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Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate
A lifetime of supporting women counts for nothing. I’m accused of being a “pick me” girl vying for male attention.
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Why is it just the left that gets accused of virtue-signalling?
Conservatives are far worse – take GB News’ daily broadcast of “God Save The Queen”.
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Eric Gill’s sculpture won’t be the last to fall in the name of moral purity
If you feel the urge to take a chisel in your hand and make your way to Broadcasting House, take…
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In modern day youth culture, conformity rules
Young people were once rebellious, but they have fallen in love with authority
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Christopher Hitchens couldn’t survive in today’s world
A decade on from Hitchens’ death, digital life discourages the free thinking and nonconformity that made him so compelling.
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Savagery in America is symptom of an increasingly disordered world
The Kyle Rittenhouse affair is a symptom of American lawlessness.
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Historians have become soft targets in the culture wars. We should fight back
The “rewriting of history” is not some act of professional misconduct but literally the job of professional historians.
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