‘me against you’ – Jon Ronson investigates the perpetual outrage of the culture wars
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
The culture wars are perpetually waged in response to new and imagined threats, but they’ve been around forever. They just keep taking on new forms. In Australia, we’re seeing heated zero-sum disputes about everything from gender and sexuality, and race and religious freedom in schools, to climate change and the right to protest.
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