Introduction: Culture Wars Revisited: Navigating Gender Dynamics in Post-2010 Social Horror

Culture wars have ferociously exploded in the American political setting, especially since the 2010s, by promoting confrontation as the final political practice. Twenty-first-century culture wars, encapsulated in a not-so-latent populism, have become a form of polarization and simplification of social interests and political ideas, poised to accomplish the unity of the people above and against its parts, and constituting a political mode where war and politics form a seamless connection. New culture wars have constructed today’s United States public opinion in polarized terms, wrangling over issues of abortion, homosexuality, religion, feminism, multiculturalism, popular culture, education, and what it means to be American.