Tag: culture war
The Problem of Pronouns and Pluralism
From the land of “the culture war is interested in you,” here’s this new report from Eugene Volokh at the Washington Post: From the official Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination’s Gender Identity Guidance, just released last week: Even a church could be...
The Culture War Is Interested in You
Last summer, David Brooks wrote that the social conflicts “oriented around the Sexual revolution” were over. Legal same-sex marriage and the declining influence of traditional Christianity had combined, he wrote, to put the goals of the culture wars of the last few decades out...
Evangelicals and the Search for Credibility
There’s a sort of American Christian (almost always white and middle-to-upper class) who seems to think that the American church’s biggest problem at the moment is the previous generation of the American church. There are various sub-groups within this broader camp. The...
Fatigue from the Culture War That Never Was
After the recent Indiana and Arkansas controversies, it’s no surprise that we’re once again hearing about culture fatigue. Of course, given how long this rhetoric has been hanging around, it may be worth treating it with a bit more skepticism...
The Politics of Silence: Questions for Peter Leithart
It was just over a year ago that Louie Giglio withdrew from participating in President Obama’s second inauguration because of the uproar surrounding his twenty-year-old comments on homosexuality. Since then, much of substance has changed in America’s culture wars, even...