The concept of ‘Cultural Marxism’, which can be traced back to the 1930s, has become a staple of contemporary right-wing discourse.
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At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
The US shows how climate change can become a partisan battleground. Britain still has the institutions and public support to avoid the same fate.
From master Jedi, to a pope, to AI Jesus, Trump has a track record of using pop culture reference as propoganda.
Culture wars once arose from impromptu events that struck a nerve among Americans, but they are now started by partisan agitators who introduce them to politicians and watch them take hold.
Why are so many Americans unwilling to identify as liberals, white or otherwise, even while supporting traditionally ‘liberal’ government programs?
A new book, Conspiracy Nation, explains how conspiratorial thinking and misinformation spread – both online and in the real world – in contemporary Australia.
Pop culture about the ‘trial of the century’ reflected broader cultural rifts.
The recent U.S. announcement to tax and ban foreign films may seem out of place in trade talks. But culture has long been a key part of North American trade relations.
US President Donald Trump is not an accident of history. His re-election is in line with a profound structural change in American society that began at the end of the Cold War.
According to a reliable poll, New Zealanders are about evenly split on investing more in cycleways, contrary to Transport Minister Simeon Brown’s recent claims.
The War Against the Past is sometimes convincing, but prompts larger questions about history, culture, education and morality.
On issues and policies in which government has a serious role – taxes, immigration, the state of the economy and even abortion – a 2023 survey found a great deal of agreement among Americans.
The work highlights that there may be no singular perspective on what is right and wrong in this rather complex and nuanced world.
The culture wars have been around forever, but keep taking new forms, and US variants threaten to spill over to Australia – as seen in the recent (overturned) ban on same-sex parenting books in Sydney.
We’ve faced difficulty getting our research off the ground, and have had our credibility as academics questioned.
Governor-general designate Sam Mostyn would become the latest punching bag in the culture wars. But how will her Governor-Generalship compare to others past?
Writers festivals navigate the fraught frontier between social media’s echo chambers of outrage and the civilised public debate of the public square. What’s the way forward in this heated atmosphere?
Conspiracy theories about urban planning are born of a national context in which public transport provision is failing
A scholar of American evangelicalism explains House Speaker Mike Johnson’s connections with Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum.
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