We know culture matters and yet

Leslie R. Crutchfield’s How Change Happens explores some of the most impactful social movements in the last two decades. We learn about MADD (mothers against drunk driving), tobacco bans in airports, schools, and hotels, the NRA’s focus on family values, and the LGBT coalition’s shift to love as advocacy. Changing hearts and minds remains front and center in each example. As with the case for abolitionism, we seem to feel first, act second. Surprisingly, Crutchfield mentions only in passing the influential donors (and dollars) that pull these movements to the other side, from culture to policies.