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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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culture wars stories: 27 news summaries

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Campuses Shift to Middle
as 'Radical Profs' Retire

Liberal legacy waning with new generation

Jul 3, 08 3:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - University campuses all over the country are becoming less passionate and more businesslike as liberal '60s professors retire, the New York Times reports. The process is expected to accelerate over the next decade as Baby Boomers hired in the great '70s expansion of  higher education move on, to be replaced... More »

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baby boomer • higher education • professor • universities • 1960s • colleges and universities • campus • 1970s • culture wars

Gay Marriage Gives Pause to Calif. Faithful

Conservatives voice opposition; other sects ponder next steps

May 20, 08 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Across California, congregations of all faiths are adjusting to last week's ruling allowing same-sex marriages—even as they attempt to reconcile state laws with those of their religions, the Los Angeles Times reports. Many churches and synagogues are working to fit the ruling into their offerings; others see a direct... More »

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California • gay marriage • marriage • religion • church • marriage rights • culture wars

Only Obama
Can Mend
Boomer Rifts

Sullivan: He's the
man to win a truce
in the culture wars

Nov 9, 07 2:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is the only presidential candidate who can take the US past the “debilitating, self-perpetuating” Vietnam-vintage divisions within the Baby Boom generation, conservative Andrew Sullivan asserts in an Atlantic cover story. Sullivan is so disturbed by the “nonviolent civil war” keeping America busy at home while the... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Rudy Giuliani • baby boomer • Vietnam • culture wars

Art Vandals Post Video of Raid
on YouTube

Camera-wielding neo-Nazis trash Serrano exhibit in Sweden

Oct 9, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andres Serrano, no stranger to controversy, has seen his current photography exhibition in a Swedish university town vandalized with crowbars and axes. But the latest incident of destruction had a new twist: The vandals who ran through Serrano's exhibition "The History of Sex" last week filmed their act of... More »

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YouTube • art • Nazi • Sweden • Andres Serrano • Neo-Nazi • culture wars

Bush's True Base Isn't the Right, It's the Rich

Business and wealthy have hijacked the GOP, argues new book

Sep 9, 07 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t be fooled by the lip service to Christian conservatives: the interests the Bush administration serves are economic, not religious, Jonathan Chait writes in the “The Big Con,” a book that the Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum calls the best on the long list of recent  Bush-bashers.... More »

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religious right • Bush administration • Republican • middle class • Christian conservatives • supply side economics • Jonathan Chait • The Big Con • George W. Bush • culture wars

Rudy Calls for Truce in
Culture Wars

Leave social issues
to the states, candidates argues

Jul 26, 07 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Giuliani may be running as a terrorist slayer, but what sets him apart is his plan to leave social issues up to the states, says LA Times columnist Ronald Brownstein. Localizing gay marriage, gun control and even abortion decisions would allow states to make policies that reflect the proclivities of... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • gay marriage • gun control • abortion rights • culture wars

Bible Belt Brings Fight to Europe

Evangelicals attack stem cells, gays, truancy laws on the continent

Apr 17, 07 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - American evangelicals have opened a new front in the culture wars—across the Atlantic. Christian groups, including Pat Robertson's legal organization, the American Center for Law and Justice, are actively challenging German laws against home schooling, defending Britons who refuse to work on Sunday, and combating same-sex marriage and stem... More »

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Christianity • Pat Robertson • stem cells • home schooling • Europe • religion • evangelism • Alliance Defense Fund • culture wars

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