15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict

We've been accused variously of trying to "appeal to all of [our] bases" and of not taking a definitive stand on hot button issues because we "have no backbone." Perhaps this may be true...perhaps we are guilty as charged. But perhaps it is also true that the world today is too divided by petty, inconsequential "culture war

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Over the last decade, many of the people who run Britain were confronted with the realization they do not know a large part of the country at all. Repeatedly, leading politicians, journalists, commentators and intellectuals were stunned by a succession of revolts they failed to see coming. In response, many turned inwards, blaming these upheavals o

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