The cultural civil war in which America is engaged is, in large measure, about American exceptionalism. Conservative America generally believes in the concept; liberal America generally finds it chauvinistic and dangerous. What is American exceptionalism? The belief that America often knows better than the world what is right and wrong. This belief drives most of the world's opinion- makers crazy. And it particularly infuriates the American Left, that part of America that trusts what is called "world opinion' more than it trusts the American people.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 - and I will not quibble. But the problem of the 21st century is the problem of culture, not just the infamous "culture of poverty" but what I would call the culture of smugness. The emblem of this culture is the term "American exceptionalism." It has been adopted by the right to mean America, alone among the nations, is beloved of God. Maybe so, but some days it's hard to tell. The term "American exceptionalism" has been invoked by Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and, of course, Sarah Palin. I would throw in Michele Bachmann, since if she has not said it yet, she soon will because she says almost anything. She is no exception to the cult of American...
... using the imaginary past to defend their cultural tics - conventional marriage or school prayer or, ...
...Critical Legal (Cultural) History B. Why RICO: Why Now? III. COMMON LAW CON..., individual freedom, and American exceptionalism have stood in opposition to Marxist market critiqu...
... from the women what political, social, cultural, economic and ecological conditions prompted them ...; and the persistence of American Exceptionalism: the notion of a U.S. that is civilized, powerful,...
...Full cultural freedom should be granted to all ethnic groups; 4....(66) However, the "exceptionalism of Palestine" is itself another discursive frame w...
... tradition is "Liberty, or Exceptionalism (so called)." The second is classified as "unilate... Testament of American foreign policy to cultural currents that include social Darwinism, progressiv...
...-building and market-making; cross-cultural communication and European discourse; and culturall exceptionalism and normalization - to offer a new framework for u...
..., protect, and conserve natural and cultural heritage "in so far as possible, and as appropriat...
... media pulled out their one-size-fits-all cultural exceptionalism. People down there are rooted in th...
... Tourism, and the Myth of Hawaiian Exceptionalism," John Eperjesi identifies London's desire to be k...
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