Conservatives have all but given up on taking a stand in the culture wars, adopting instead a position of ‘there’s nothing to see here’ and leaving the field to those who would strip Western culture of its greatest achievements. When conservatives do mount a response it’s laissez-faire to the point of paralysis, so nuanced that it’s indiscernible to most of us, evoking a deer-in-headlights scenario, when some token defender of anything more than five minutes old is torn to shreds by the other side.