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Piss Christ at 40: what the 1989 culture war still gets wrong

Isaac Butler's new history of America's arts-versus-the-moral-majority fights argues the real story isn't censorship, it's the industrialisation of outrage.

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Desk note: Monexus framed this around the 1989 mechanics, the procedural innovation, the donor-data asymmetry, the industrial template, rather than the more familiar free-speech-versus-censorship axis the wire coverage of Butler's book has so far run on. The structural argument is that the artefacts change and the tooling stays the same; the through-line is the supply chain, not the moral content.

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