How French Intellectuals Ruined the West Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Helen Pluckrose 7 May 2024 · 18 min read
The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives. Peter Clarke 20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
The Approaching Disintegration of Academia Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth. Mark Goldblatt 7 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
Herbert Marcuse and the Left’s Endless Campaign Against Western ‘Repression’ The Frankfurt School of social theory began about a century ago, in the Weimar Republic. It consisted in the main of a group of rather anti-capitalist, Marxist-light gentlemen who embraced oikophobia (the hatred or dislike of one’s own cultural home), and who were understandably disillusioned by the carnage of Benedict Beckeld 2 Mar 2022 · 8 min read
Quillette's Best on Critical Social Justice According to this culturally relative view of the world, then, truth is arbitrary and exclusive, rather than evidentiary and shared. The consequence is divisiveness. Quillette 21 Aug 2021 · 4 min read
Don't Blame Neoliberalism for 'Postmodern Conservatism' The tides of history ebb and flow, along with doctrines such as neoliberalism, modernism, postmodernism, and whatever it is that follows postmodernism. Jonathan Church 23 Feb 2020 · 6 min read
Postmodernism's Dead End Equally important is that this new definition of usefulness extends to nonhuman nature as well. Maximilian Werner 23 Sep 2019 · 10 min read
Has the Postmodern Revolution Come Full Circle? This new orthodoxy arrogates to itself divine authority to make truth claims on the basis of consistency with its asserted principles, and these are held to be immune to disproof or falsification by reason or evidence. Colin Turfus 15 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
Understanding Postmodern Conservatism: A Reply To Aaron Hanlon Professor Hanlon argues that, far from independently causing Trump, many postmodern theorists can actually help us understand the rise of Trumpism. Matt McManus 4 Sep 2018 · 11 min read
Suspicion and the Corruption of the Liberal Mind Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression. Stephen Harrod Buhner 22 Aug 2018 · 8 min read
Understanding and Misunderstanding 'Dog-Whistling' It is common to hear from the alt-right that words like ‘diversity’ are dog-whistles for anti-white racism. Blake Smith 16 Jul 2018 · 10 min read
Postmodern Theory Returns to Continental Europe Faculty in continental Europe already overwhelming lean left in the social sciences and humanities Vincent Debierre 26 May 2018 · 9 min read
Postmodernism and the Decline of the Liberal Arts Postmodernism is devouring the liberal arts. Such a deeply entrenched cultural problem cannot be solved by top-down intervention. Velvet Favretto 21 May 2018 · 6 min read
The Emergence and Rise of Postmodern Conservatism The locus of many conservative criticisms of postmodernism seems to be twofold. Matt McManus 17 May 2018 · 10 min read
The Impasse Between Modernism and Postmodernism The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents? Patrick Lee Miller 7 Dec 2017 · 22 min read
