Watching Doc Martin again has reminded me that village life is full of petty jealousies and irrational resentments, but also strong communitarian ties.
Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly sought the perfection of the traditional family, at the expense of reality itself, by fighting against the Equal Rights Amendment.
We're seeing an unbinding of the deep affinity between representations of culture and Catholic culture. How did Catholicism come to be seen as the enemy?