#culture-wars

#culture-wars

"If you're coming from these states, you will take a test through the state department to show you're aligned to our standards," Walters said in a press conference in late July. "You're not going to come here and teach that there's 27 genders ... you're not going to undermine American exceptionalism by teaching anti-American and anti-semitic hate."

Donald Trump has been especially attuned to everything happening on social media, engaging in cultural debates, including Sydney Sweeney's jeans controversy and targeting media personalities.

Rand's contemporary disciples, who are many and very illustrious, have not lost sight of the lesson of the mother of objectivism and fertile narcissism.

It's as if we're currently living in a late night commercial for ambulance chasers: did you do something odious or antisocial that has terrible real world consequences? You may be entitled to compensation from your fellow believers.

It's the earnestness of today's high-stakes culture wars that has dulled the Turner prize's edge, making this year's shortlist disappointing and uninspired.