In his BBC Radio series “Things Fell Apart,” the British-born journalist Jon Ronson introduces himself as “a writer living in America, the land where culture wars begin.” What are culture wars? Early in the show’s first season, which aired in 2021, Ronson defines them as “almost everything that people yell at each other about on social media”; in later episodes, he refines the definition to “the battle for dominance between conflicting values.” While reporting the second season, which was released last month, an interviewee told him, “America is a class-based society that pretends to be an identity-based society.” “It’s stuck with me ever since,” Ronson said. “I’ve been wondering if maybe a better definition of culture wars would be ‘anything we fight about that isn’t economics.’ ”
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