The Winter of American Culture

Ferguson, Missouri, Nov. 24, 2014 (Photo by Adrian Garcia; People’s Tribune, Jan. 2015)

The state of American culture in the 21st Century is that there really is no unifying “mainstream” American culture. I put this down, of course, as if there ever really was a coherent and cohesive mainstream culture in America — or anywhere else, for that matter.

Any amount of study should reveal that there are usually recognizable cultural attributes to peoples and nations of the size and scope of the United…