Sentences with phrase «of cultural conservatism»

From this persistent fact of cultural conservatism arise the most serious problems of social conflict, including the bitter strife of races, classes, sects, and nations.

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His stout anti-communism, critique of loosening sexual mores, and cultural conservatism ran squarely against the academic trends of the time.

And although the «pro-wealth policies of the right have enjoyed sustained low - and low - middle - income support, particularly among religious voters enlisted by cultural facets of conservatism,» these households have lost ground precipitously.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

The decade - long anti-ERA battle (whose success Critchlow links to the rise of a bipartisan discontent with both economic and cultural liberalism that led millions of Democrats to desert their party and vote for Reagan in 1980), is the climax of Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

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It can only confirm many Americans in their suspicion that cultural conservatism is outside the «mainstream» of American politics, that it is «extremist,» even subversive.

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

In response to Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas, they argue that it is middle American families who most acutely reap the consequences of our cultural breakdown» and this explains their inclination toward the social conservatism of the Republicans.

R. R. Reno on conservatism and gay marriage: Redefinition of marriage to allow same - sex unions undermines the proper separation of cultural and governmental power that is so important for a liberal regime.

The phenomenal success of the electronic church is in part a result of intelligent application of revolutionary technology, but a more important factor is America's cultural drift toward conservatism.

It further uproots the noble, if not completely successful, efforts of the Cameronites to rebalance the core of Conservatism: a complex marriage between communities / the primacy of cultural norms and the free market economy.

However, the view that government is an outgrowth of society (including cultural, religious, and moral views) is echoed by Edmund Burke (the theorist behind conservatism).

Burke's theory of conservatism suggests that the government should be rooted in the historical and cultural values of its citizens.

And there's also a strong vein of how Hollywood codified queer culture during the height of McCarthyism and the cultural conservatism enforced through draconian production codes.

Created under the shadow of Reagan - era conservatism and, later on in the decade, the increasing anger, confusion, and tragedy of AIDS, Tseng's work reminds us of an extraordinary period in our recent cultural history — exuberantly relentless and insolent, but also full of humor, pathos and life.

To see Orly's arrestingly frank, personal images sewn upon kitschy vintage table runners is to understand immediately the many changes in the tenor of cultural expression between then and now, and in conflating today's brand of cultural confessionalism with yesteryear's kitschy conservatism her work encapsulates a sweeping arc of feminist history.

Of course, Fin - de-siècle Paris was a time and place of political upheaval and cultural transformation, during which sustained economic crisis and social problems spurred the rise of radical left - wing groups and an attendant backlash of conservatism that plagued France throughout the late 1890Of course, Fin - de-siècle Paris was a time and place of political upheaval and cultural transformation, during which sustained economic crisis and social problems spurred the rise of radical left - wing groups and an attendant backlash of conservatism that plagued France throughout the late 1890of political upheaval and cultural transformation, during which sustained economic crisis and social problems spurred the rise of radical left - wing groups and an attendant backlash of conservatism that plagued France throughout the late 1890of radical left - wing groups and an attendant backlash of conservatism that plagued France throughout the late 1890of conservatism that plagued France throughout the late 1890s.

Hired in 1922 by the Chicago Daily News, he soon became an influential champion of modernism in a city well - known for its cultural conservatism.

The pay (compared with Tate's peer institutions around the world) is poor; the politics frightening in light of Brexit, recession, and Britain's increasing cultural conservatism and insularity.

While there is a dystopian narrative concerning the rise of corporate - driven cultural conservatism in America, the message isn't baroque.

Taking place just days after the United States presidential elections, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice seeks to explore how art practitioners can maintain sovereignty over their own voice as world citizens and commentators amidst the pervasively hostile political climates and marginalising forces of conservatism around the globe, in addition to contending with art world prescriptions, cultural impositions and shifting market demands.