The expression ‘culture wars’ is having a flush of popularity just now, but it is surprisingly old. Recorded in English from at least 1879 it began life as the German word Kulturkampf (literally ‘culture struggle’). At first it referred to a seven-year political conflict (1872-1878) between Pope Pius IX and Chancellor Otto von Bismark.
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