[Track C] This advanced seminar explores the dynamics of culture and politics that have shaped conflict and consensus in the United States over the last seventy years. Starting from intellectual visions of post-WW II political and cultural liberalism, course readings and films survey the reactions to the “liberal consensus” during the 1960s (i.e., civil rights, anti-war, and women’s movements; the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground) and the “conservative” reaction to these formations of the “New Left.” We will also consider the importance of “identity” in American culture and politics (from countercultural lifestyles to the Tea Party to Black Lives Matter) and the assertion of the continuing significance of class. Writers include: Louis Hartz, Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Bell, David Riesman, Todd Gitlin, Sara Evans, Jane Mansbridge, Arlie Hochschild, Richard Rorty, Christopher Lebron, and others. [Track C]