Stanley Kurtz

In the following viewpoint, Stanley Kurtz maintains that the liberal-versus-conservative culture wars are ongoing, despite suggestions by some political activists that conservatives had lost the culture wars. Although conservatives have suffered setbacks, the liberal agenda for American culture is untenable, argues Kurtz. Ultimately, most Americans cannot accept the radical erosion of traditional values that left-wing activists promote. When the left breaks mainstream taboos, a traditionalist reaction inevitably ensues—resulting in a constant oscillation between radicalism and conservatism. Neither the left nor the right will become the ultimate victor in this cultural battle, the author concludes. Kurtz is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a contributing editor at National Review Online.

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