Culture Wars, Universities, and the Political Unconscious

Robert Samuels is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at UC Santa Barbra, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychology and English, and he is the author of twenty books, including Viral Rhetoric, The Psychopathology of Political Ideology, and Freud for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2021).

• 1 Culture Wars and the Political Unconscious.- 2 The Centrist History of the Culture Wars.- 3 Allan Bloom and the Origins of the Contemporary Culture War.- 4 A Well-Funded Political Conspiracy.- 5 Cancel Culture, Free Speech, and the Center-Right.- 6 Ben Shapiro, Higher Education, and the New Cold War McCarthyism.- 7 Ted Cruz, Paranoia, and the Cultural Marxism Conspiracy.- 8 Walter Benn Michaels and the Leftist Case Against Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.- 9 Left-Wing Educational Racism and Anti-Racism.- 10 Antisemitism, Free Speech, and the Political Unconscious.- 11 Beyond the Culture Wars: Universities, Democracy, and Psychoanalysis.