abstract:Cultural liberalism is a liberal view of society that stresses the freedom of individuals from cultural norms. It is often expressed, in the words of Thoreau as the right to "march to the beat of a different drummer".
Asked to sum up, Professor Giddens said and I have this almost verbatim that the seminar showed there was a new cultural sensibility emerging, based on the collapse of neo-liberalism and post-modernism, and the start of global cosmopolitanism.
But the president also understood that as liberalism became more fashionable among the young, so conservatism was gaining momentum as a counter-cultural force of its own.
In a fascinating essay for The American Spectator's website, Jeffrey Lord attributes the Democrats' problems (or "The Death of Liberalism, " the title of Spectator editor Bob Tyrrell's new book) to a cultural shift that took place after JFK's assassination.