Charles Schulz evaluated the changing world around him, not so much in strict ideologies of a certain set of coherent beliefs that are infallible and unbendable. Groth: The ideology of peanuts is not so much dictating a viewpoint to the audience as it is sort of suggesting questions. I see the wishy washiness of peanuts really facilitating a space for conversation.
Cartoonist Charles Schulz wrote and drew Peanuts every day for half a century. In his new book Charlie Brown's America, Historian Blake Scott Ball uses the strip (and the fan mail archive at the Schulz museum) to illuminate the Wishy-Washy politics of Cold War America.