‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars

In a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at Politics and Prose, an independent bookshop and venerable…

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