The Culture War Gone Global: ‘Family Values’ and the Shape of US Foreign Policy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While ‘evil’ has long played a role in American civil-religious political discourse, there is a unique quality in the Bush administration’s framing of both its foreign and domestic policy in terms of a struggle between good and evil. This article examines the political and religious foundations underlying this framing. Three arguments shape the discussion. First, the Bush administration, following a political strategy influenced by neoconservatives and the religious right, has attempted to revive culture-war nationalism to define and defend American values. Second, when this strategy is coupled with an economic policy of free market capitalism, as is the case in the 2002 National Security Strategy, a paradox emerges between the conservative values of culture-war nationalism and the values associated with global capitalism. And, third, the Bush administration has at times been able to exploit the unease caused by this paradox to garner domestic political support. Such a strategy draws links between the domestic culture war and the global war on terror, revealing the influence of a political alliance between neoconservatives and the religious right in shaping the Bush administration’s understanding of evil in the twentyfirst century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".