My Generation, by Justin E. H. Smith
It’s not just the party that is over. The culture war is over. So...the right won? No, but the liberals’ media empire is over.
Mo_Diggs • The Last Days of Disco Liberalism
Foreigners didn’t have to force down our way of life—they ate it up. I don’t just mean our music, movies, food, clothes, sports, manners, and idioms. I mean that our system of political economy, democratic capitalism, which produced our mass culture, was also a universal model, especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some yearned for it, some
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As someone who had spent several years on American campuses, all of these ideas rang familiar to me. They echoed the sixties’ revulsion to military strength, the romance with developing societies, and the questioning of American primacy. Regarding the Middle East, in particular, one could discern the reverberations of Edward Said’s Orientalism, whi
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