A Date with the Cultural Revolution (opens in new tab)

At first glance, J and Q were stereotypical highly-educated Democrats. They resided in Lexington, Virginia, a small liberal college town of 7,000 where they each worked at historic institutions of higher education. J, a business professor, taught rich Republicans at a private liberal arts school. Q, a historian, taught the less affluent Republicans at a state-supported military college. J’s eight-year-old daughter, already fluent in the subtleties of American class distinctions, once proudly ...