This Is How You Win the Culture Wars
“I’m tempted to try to explain today’s culture wars by drawing on my almost sixty years of activism in movements for social justice, peace, and economic justice—including a regrettable but informative stint as a teenaged working-class Goldwater Girl. [politicalresearch.org] But sometimes political analysis is not sufficient to explain something much larger and more roiling than issues, voting behavior, and elections. So I’ll turn first to whitewater rafting for an image that may be useful.”