Stretching from the 1840s to the present, this dazzling collection captures two centuries of art, war, disasters, transport, technology – and boasts some beautifully moving portraits
, may land awkwardly for weary followers of recursive debates over cancel culture, wokeness, and the like. The loudest and most visible partisans in these battles are aggrieved white men, insisting that they’re scapegoats in unhinged identity-driven witch hunts and eagerly putting themselves forward as martyrs in ugly confrontations over free speech. How is it, then, that this demographic emerged as the victors of the modern American culture wars and managed to leverage that success into ongoing, ever-renewable plaints of grievance?
The answer, Darda argues in this original and persuasive revisionist study, lies in the overlap between the post-1960s culture wars and the legacy of an actual war: the American debacle in Vietnam. The United States withdrew in defeat from Vietnam in 1975 a fraught moment as well for the American political economy, coinciding with the landmark civil rights and feminist uprisings that convulsed the country as many American soldiers served overseas. Ret
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A whole new class of yinzers may find themselves eligible for European Union citizenship this summer without being aware of it. Last month, Slovakia’s Cabinet approved their citizenship amendment proposal in a move that could make up to 800,000 Slovak Americans eligible for Slovak citizenship, including up to an estimated 100,000 Pittsburgh-area residents among 230,000 total Pennsylvanians. The bill is expected to pass a parliamentary vote in.