Opinion | America’s Never-Ending Culture War

Not only do Americans continue to debate, often angrily, about when and how the police should use violence against unarmed civilians. Liberals and leftists still battle with conservatives over most of the other big issues that roiled the nation back then: affirmative action, the right to abortion, freedom for gays and lesbians, curbs on corporate power, environmental protection, the politics of academia — and rulings by the Supreme Court that cheer one camp and infuriate the other.