This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Chris Daley noticed that ‘postmodern’ has been popping up a lot lately ...
“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...
I received the following e-mail from a reader, in response to my “Race, Identity Politics, and Evangelicalism” post. He gives me permission to use it, so long as I keep his name out of it. There’s a ...
The term postmodernism is a mouthful, to say and to understand, but it is a critical concept to make sense of our world today, especially in the U.S. and especially since 1960. Britanica.com defines ...
Postmodernism is back. We see it in the slew of books and articles about the movement, in the campaigns to save some of its greatest landmarks such as Philip Johnson's AT&T building in New York, in ...
In 2018, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, the editor of Areo magazine and a Ph.D. mathematician, respectively, achieved internet stardom when they revealed that (along with co-conspirator Peter ...
As I said before, the April 19 debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek is a great waste of time. Žižek, the philosopher, exists on a planet that has a pretty close relationship with reality.
Postmodernism is a big, cumbersome word, but that’s fitting because the concept is big and cumbersome. The fact is, however, we are living in this “ism” right now. As Bob Dylan summed it up at the ...