Many conservatives often seem to have given up on culture or not to care. There’s a strong strain of philistinism on the right.(h/t maggie's farm)
When we talk about “culture wars,” we usually mean preventing the courts from redefining marriage or promoting abstinence instead of birth control: culture, in other words, as the behavioral branch of politics.
Culture, in the true sense, is more than that. It’s the whole engulfing narrative of our values.
Leftists know this. These kids get an earful from the Left every day. Their schools serve up black history in a way guaranteed to alienate them from the American enterprise.
Their sanctioned reading list denies boys the natural fantasies of battling villains and protecting women from harm. Any instinct the girls might have that their bodies and their self-respect are interrelated is negated by the ubiquitous parable of celebrity lives.
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