This is absolutely right. And what's striking is that in the current moment the simple, one-dimensional culturalist explanations are coming mainly from liberals & centrists (as against, say, after 9/11 when they came from the right).https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1503929946984615937 …
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But liberals, short of good explanations for the world's diversity and evolution in the past 20 years, have been moving in that direction.
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I would push that a little further and say whether consciously or not, culturalist explanations are a way of avoiding a reckoning with the failed policies of liberalism in its post-cold war triumphalism.
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Yes, I agree. The same was true re. Trump: rather than acknowledging the loss of income of the middle class they resorted to the same culturalist explanations.
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I think this is on point -- there's a broader retreat of liberalism into culturalist explanation.https://twitter.com/averyfjames/status/1503937487558881282 …
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