America's culture wars are a losing fight

In ways both social and political, Americans are finding ways to signal their resistance to a culture war that obstructs responsible governance on one side while the other side makes almost every personal interaction political.

Perhaps the way forward is for the great majority of us caught in the middle to insist on grappling with the complexity of most issues while demonstrating the willingness to disagree amicably whenever possible.

If that happens, then we will have gone from all of us losing the culture war to all of us winning it. For the better angels of our nature will have prevailed. Read more.

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