Commentary
What is generally referred to as the “culture wars” in the United States is in historical and practical terms a misnomer. It comes from the Kulturkampf conducted by the great German statesman and unifier of Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, against the large Roman Catholic minority in the newly united Germany, and to a lesser extent, against the other Episcopal Church in Germany, the Lutherans. This was one of the very few serious errors that Bismarck committed in his 28 years as prime minister of Prussia (1862–1890), including 19 years as the founding chancellor of the German Empire.
