Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...positive energies of our liberal era are spent, and the problems resulting from this will lead directly to the politics of tomorrow. What is coming, wedded to the birth of the next millenium, is a moral revolution...
This rebirth in morality will replace the politics of this century, which are already winding down around us. The great ideological struggle between individual freedom and communism is over. Paralleling this domestically, the great social movements of the century are equally worn out: notably the great civil rights and feminist movements, which lost much of their moral force as a result of their own successes in the 1960s...
After equal rights legislation, the movements' raisons d'ltre were spent and, for reasons of power instead of justice, they have turned their focus onto their current, far more cynical agenda. Subsequently, their moral authority has mostly disintegrated. And dominating every facet of '90s-style American politics is an across-the-boards cynicism about government exhibited by citizens regardless of party affiliation...
...effeteness is also pervasive in the world of art, since art and politics are both but facets on the same cultural jewel. 1990s-style art finds its most visible example in the overexposed Pulp Fiction. This highly successful film is appropriate here not just because of its thematic moral nihilism, but even more importantly for its subtle display of the bankruptcy of our era. It is simply this: Pulp Fiction, entertaining as it is, contains very little that is actually new. In fact, one of the most important reasons that the movie is considered so avant-garde is because...
...willing to use force in an immoral, unprincipled manner, liberals are often too pacifist or too skittish to use military force at all. For example, the Clinton administration vacillated on Bosnia and issued dozens of empty threats and ultimatums. Liberals must realize that force should be used generously for moral purposes...