Harvard and Culture Wars

"'Culture war' isn't a term we hear that often anymore [. . .]
But the concept (first coined by professor James Davison Hunter) still best explains where we are today in US politics -- [. . .]
Cultural power, explains Hunter, is the power to 'name reality.' Culture is mostly created in urban centers and spread to the periphery. E.g.: Harvard Law School decides that gay marriage is a basic human right, which spreads through judges until it runs smack up into the one source of cultural power in America that isn't controlled by urban centers -- the American people."

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Why everyone's sick of Washington
By MAGGIE GALLAGHER
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:16 AM, February 17, 2010
Posted: 1:17 AM, February 17, 2010