The Phantom Enemy of the Culture War
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
postmodernism
A collection of 19 posts
The Neo-Romantic Revolt
The rise of a three-pronged politics of unreason.
Shalom Lappin
· 14 min read
A Heterodox Education
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Claire Lehmann
· 22 min read
How French Intellectuals Ruined the West
Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.
Helen Pluckrose
· 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
· 6 min read
The Approaching Disintegration of Academia
Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.
Mark Goldblatt
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 6 min read
Postmodernism's Dead End
Equally important is that this new definition of usefulness extends to nonhuman nature as well.
Maximilian Werner
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read