The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at
U.S. universities which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes
between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead they are clashes
between a new moral culture-victimhood culture-and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even
as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and safe spaces many young people are quick
to police the words and deeds of others who in turn claim that political correctness has run
amok. Interestingly members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In
tracking the rise of victimhood culture Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an
often dizzying cultural milieu from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around
free speech to the election of Donald Trump.
