Cultural history of the Crusades in 2010 United States http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/76209

"The return of the Crusades in books, movies, and speeches isn’t some random phenomenon that rears its head every so many years, like padded shoulders on women’s jackets or mousse-spiked hair for adolescent guys. It is connected with a broader sea change of US culture. The rise of popular religiosity in this remembrance for a religious war is significant. More or less, the West has always been at war. But while the two World Wars this last century were political wars, with a little bit of ideology thrown in for speechmaking, this longing for neo-Crusades in which to recreate oneself marks a significant breakdown in the liberal frame of reference."