Reading List

The Culture War

Essays on political correctness, the academy, media bias, Hollywood, and the long battle over American cultural institutions. The Weekly Standard was one of the few outlets willing to take these fights seriously as intellectual, not just political, questions.

9 articles

  1. 1

    Puritans in Hollywood

    Andrew Ferguson May 21, 2007

    Andrew Ferguson on moralism, censorship, and the contradictions of the film ratings system.

  2. 2

    A World Without Public Schools

    David Gelernter June 4, 2007

    David Gelernter questions the premise of compulsory public education.

  3. 3

    Real Religious Intolerance

    Hugh Hewitt June 16, 2005

    Hugh Hewitt on the double standard applied to religious conservatives in public life.

  4. 4

    Annals of Intolerance

    Stephen Schwartz July 2, 2012

    On blasphemy laws and the assault on free expression from an unexpected direction.

  5. 5

    Left Behind

    Abigail Thernstrom April 29, 2013

    Abigail Thernstrom on radical indoctrination in American public schools.

  6. 6

    Outrageous Dowd

    Daniel Halper September 16, 2012

    Media bias in mainstream journalism — with Maureen Dowd as the case study.

  7. 7

    T-Shirt Intolerance and Prop. 8 Protests

    Mary Katharine Ham November 14, 2008

    On the intolerance that progressive activists showed toward those who disagreed with them.

  8. 8

    A Culture War Deferred

    Christopher Caldwell on the Dutch culture war and what it portends for American politics.

  9. 9

    Italy’s deplorables unite against Europe’s elites

    Caldwell on Italian populism as a culture war against technocratic elites (2018).