This is really interesting and I look forward to reading the book when it comes out. From my perspective as someone who lives in the UK, I think the greater challenges are that the economic divisions stem outwardly from moral and cultural questions. The economics represents and reinforces an already existing divide which few people, if anyone at all, appears to have a handle on how to address.
I think both sides are interested in changing the culture and radicals on both sides are coming from a religious angle. The sentence written here reminds me an awful lot of growing up in a pentecostal, fundamentalist church and listening to sermons on being born into sin. : "...the “movement” often derisively referred to as “wokeness” has understood that individual Americans must recognize their own complicity in an unjust system and consequently take it upon themselves as a personal moral obligation to see those inequalities corrected."
Interesting post but I would like to suggest that it is probably not "a true reevaluation of work in this country" that might lead to a climate "amenable to a living wage" but rather a sharp drop in the number of immigrants we welcome every year. Not advocating for this, but suspect it's a trade-off those interested in working class wages will someday need to face if they are serious.
This would be great book, looking at the substance of the new new new Right from the outside. I think you should also look at the question of why now and why in this manner? I remember not so long ago libertarianism what thought to be an important political movement. Also, given how the Bannon openly cites Foucault, Lenin and other leftists, to what extent are these borrowings from the cultural turn in academia?
In a polarized time like this, I think both sides of the culture war are doomed to disappointment.
More conservative rulings from courts, and more conservative social legislation by states, means less progressive respect for those institutions. Much like the excesses of the woke types (in part because they can be as preachy, smug, and judgmental as church folk) lead to lower conservative respect for academia, media, etc.
More likely than either side gaining cultural hegemony, I think, is both sides becoming more and more selective in which institutions they respect, obey, and see as legitimate.
It seems simplistic to expect a single factor to explain societal trends - Wish the world were simple! Have been reading Peter Turchen's work modelling social unrest from Han Dynasty through French & Russian revolutions and US history.
This is a dispiriting post - not that I think or have evidence that it's wrong - but it's just dispiriting to think that the culture wars are what it's all about and that, surrounded by enormous problems, we have nothing better to look forward to than a series of Newts and lefty Newt-equivalents wanting to awaken or morally shape society while the world burns.
But thanks, Elizabeth: we clearly need to grapple with this and I'll be keenly interested in how you develop this theme. Can I pre-order?
This is really interesting and I look forward to reading the book when it comes out. From my perspective as someone who lives in the UK, I think the greater challenges are that the economic divisions stem outwardly from moral and cultural questions. The economics represents and reinforces an already existing divide which few people, if anyone at all, appears to have a handle on how to address.
I think both sides are interested in changing the culture and radicals on both sides are coming from a religious angle. The sentence written here reminds me an awful lot of growing up in a pentecostal, fundamentalist church and listening to sermons on being born into sin. : "...the “movement” often derisively referred to as “wokeness” has understood that individual Americans must recognize their own complicity in an unjust system and consequently take it upon themselves as a personal moral obligation to see those inequalities corrected."
Interesting post but I would like to suggest that it is probably not "a true reevaluation of work in this country" that might lead to a climate "amenable to a living wage" but rather a sharp drop in the number of immigrants we welcome every year. Not advocating for this, but suspect it's a trade-off those interested in working class wages will someday need to face if they are serious.
Hi Elisabeth, I am one of the students that you had in an online german course . I knew you were a right winger from your eyes lol
This would be great book, looking at the substance of the new new new Right from the outside. I think you should also look at the question of why now and why in this manner? I remember not so long ago libertarianism what thought to be an important political movement. Also, given how the Bannon openly cites Foucault, Lenin and other leftists, to what extent are these borrowings from the cultural turn in academia?
In a polarized time like this, I think both sides of the culture war are doomed to disappointment.
More conservative rulings from courts, and more conservative social legislation by states, means less progressive respect for those institutions. Much like the excesses of the woke types (in part because they can be as preachy, smug, and judgmental as church folk) lead to lower conservative respect for academia, media, etc.
More likely than either side gaining cultural hegemony, I think, is both sides becoming more and more selective in which institutions they respect, obey, and see as legitimate.
It seems simplistic to expect a single factor to explain societal trends - Wish the world were simple! Have been reading Peter Turchen's work modelling social unrest from Han Dynasty through French & Russian revolutions and US history.
This is a dispiriting post - not that I think or have evidence that it's wrong - but it's just dispiriting to think that the culture wars are what it's all about and that, surrounded by enormous problems, we have nothing better to look forward to than a series of Newts and lefty Newt-equivalents wanting to awaken or morally shape society while the world burns.
But thanks, Elizabeth: we clearly need to grapple with this and I'll be keenly interested in how you develop this theme. Can I pre-order?