Not all that long ago, in a country strongly resembling this one, it appeared that the left — using that term in its broadest, vaguest sense — had won the culture wars.

It wasn’t an unreasonable assumption. Marriage equality was the law of the land. A Black man with a conspicuously foreign-sounding name had been elected president twice, by comfortable margins. Trans people, previously a marginal and largely ignored minority even within the LGBTQ+ community, were speaking out about their experiences and demanding equality. Those social and political changes, among many others, seemed to follow and reflect much larger and deeper cultural shifts.

Pop culture became increasingly enmeshed in questions of identity, intersectionality, racial justice, gender and queerness. The #MeToo movement se

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