Saturday, April 12, 2014

Kevin Drum asks...

(h/t Atrios)

"Who started the Culture Wars, Anyway?" and to be a little pedantic, I'd say they began in the Renaissance and were won by liberals by the end of the Enlightenment because everything after that is merely mopping up the remaining pockets of dust.

3 comments:

Ken Hoop said...

Your talking about the West.
Euro-Russ never had a Renaissance and Oswald Spengler said Moscow could be the Third Rome.

Steve J. said...

Yeah, I am only talking about the West. I should have made that clear.

Ken Hoop said...

Moon of Alabama today notes how the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainians take what their prelates bless
much more seriously than the Western Uniate Catholics.
Check it out.