Trigger Happy
Dec 05, 2019
3 minutes
STEVEN POOLE
he idea of a ‘culture war’ sounds peculiarly modern, familiar to most of us from the battles between Republicans and Democrats in the US over issues such as abortion rights or gay marriage, and becoming a more global affair of late with the rise of the so-called ‘alt-right’ and so-called ‘identity politics’. Yet the phrase appears in English as early as 1879, in a history of Germany and Prussia in Napoleon’s time. There, it is
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