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The Emergence of Family Values as a Neoconservative Theme The Emergence of Family Values as a Neoconservative Theme
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The New Era of Sentiment in American Politics: Irving Kristol’s Family Wars The New Era of Sentiment in American Politics: Irving Kristol’s Family Wars
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The Moral Sense as a Policy Compass: James Q. Wilson on Abortion and Gay Marriage The Moral Sense as a Policy Compass: James Q. Wilson on Abortion and Gay Marriage
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A Neoconservative Philosophy of Moral Education A Neoconservative Philosophy of Moral Education
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The Battle over Nonjudgmentalism and the New Definitions of Deviancy The Battle over Nonjudgmentalism and the New Definitions of Deviancy
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3 Family Values as Moral Intuitions: Neoconservatives and the War over the Family
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Published:April 2021
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Abstract
Chapter 3 examines the neoconservative contribution to the culture wars battles over the family, sexuality, and gender issues. It shows how Irving Kristol and James Q. Wilson responded to the liberalization of family norms in the 1980s and 1990s by reintroducing and reshaping the moral language of the Scottish Enlightenment—common sense, the moral sense, and moral sentiments. The chapter suggests that in the hands of the neoconservatives, the eighteenth-century Scottish moral vocabulary became a political tool intended to delegitimize and marginalize the increasingly widespread liberal views of many family experts and intellectuals. Wilson, for example, criticized the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision for being at odds with the “moral sentiments” of ordinary Americans and Kristol called for “common sense” in the debate over sex education. The neoconservatives also applied similar anti-intellectual rhetoric in the debates over same-sex marriage and child raising. By appealing to the moral sentiments and common sense of imagined ordinary Americans, Kristol and Wilson defined the boundaries of an acceptable—moral and democratic—discourse on family matters. Such rhetoric had a powerful appeal in a country with deep passion for democracy, but the moral sentiments of Americans were always more varied than the neoconservatives suggested.
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