The case for polarized politics : why America needs social conservatism

Because no movement resembling American social conservatism exists in any other affluent democracy, it is widely seen as a ?retro" phenomenon soon to disappear, a sure casualty of globalization.Author and political activist Jeffrey Bell argues that social conservatism is uniquely American precisely because it's an outgrowth of American exceptionalism. It exists here because our founding principles, centering on the belief that we receive equal rights from God rather than from government, remain popular among American voters?if not at elite institutions.Bell argues that uph